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This week, we explore the tug of war between protecting union jobs and the transition to a cleaner economy.

After HBO's I May Destroy You, some of us were empowered. Some confronted the people who violated their trust. Some started therapy.

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.

The death of Chilean democracy and inauguration of a reign of terror also turned the country into a ruthless laboratory for neoliberal economics, the same savage capitalism that is being vigorously contested in the United States today.

A White House memo directing an end to the programs said the trainings are “anti-American propaganda” and must stop.

A federal court has ruled in favor of stronger disclosure requirements just in time for the November 2020 elections.

Thirty years after murder of eight people, including six Jesuits, those who ordered deaths may finally face consequences

Defunding the police is the first step in a longer process that may culminate in the end of policing in the United States. The repeated failure of meaningful reform have made concepts like “defunding” and “abolition” part of mainstream conversation.

The Los Angeles School Board voted to cut $70 million a year budget of the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) by $25 million—35%—and move those funds to programs focused on the needs of Black students.

The “essential workers” picking our food are facing fires, heat waves, and the pandemic, all at once. California’s farmworkers, many undocumented, and many without a choice, have been working through a summer of increasingly brutal conditions.