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The prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably. In the months since Joe Biden took office, nineteen states have enacted thirty-three laws that make it more difficult for citizens to vote.

November was a sluggish month for women re-entering the workforce as women gained only 36% of new jobs, reports the National Women’s Law Center. It could take 30 months to gain back the nearly 2 million jobs women have lost during the pandemic.

Spanish author Almudena Grandes, who died last week, was famed for her novels portraying ordinary Spaniards’ experience of civil war and dictatorship. She insisted that unearthing historical memory was fundamental to building a democratic Spain.

Facing little opposition from either Republicans or Democrats, the U.S. military is almost never held accountable for killing civilians during airstrikes.

You can still buy the actual fruitcakes served at British Royal weddings though some have survived long past their shelf life.

A proposal for the WTO to waive intellectual-property rights on pandemic-related pharmaceuticals is still languishing due rich countries companies reaping monopoly profits. A public-health bill in Brazil points to a promising bottom-up solution.

There are good reasons for working class people to distrust formal education systems and scientific research but we can't fall into anti-intellectualism. The University of the Poor's “struggle as a school” is a way to organize in response.

With Singapore and Indonesia's superapps finally in reach of U.S. listings, union trouble brews at home.

The workers in upstate New York are confident that come Thursday, they will have the first unionized Starbucks out of almost 9,000 in the United States.

Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below.