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Largest strike in world history

Thousands of Kaiser health care workers, including 22,000 nurses in Southern California, are on strike to demand better pay and staffing. The walk out has resulted in canceled or delayed appointments and surgeries, patients say.

International support for a Palestinian state has never been stronger, but the territory that could be included in such a state is disappearing like sand in an hourglass.

His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico says Trump is 'worried' Texas will vote blue

Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.

Another daily bites the dust

The Chomskys apologize for being manipulated, for being too trusting, for not researching Epstein’s background, for their “lapse in judgment.” That’s fine. But the Chomskys caused harm. They have yet to apologize for that.

Dublin’s a Tough Battlefield (1921), ¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1946), Chaplin’s Anti-Capitalist Masterpiece (1936), 500,000 Dead and Counting (2021), A Hard-Won Victory for Farm Workers (1986), Colonialism Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun (1826)

She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.