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ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?

After 14 Years at the Helm, AFSCME President Lee Saunders to Retire in August 2026.

Is it war yet?

In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.

The escalation comes two weeks after 31,000 nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and other professionals in California and Hawaii began the strike in late January.

Defense of ICE has become a political loser, and the deal to trade reforms for continued funding is off the table.

While menacing Venezuela and Greenland, an “unbound” Trump has unleashed the empire on itself in Minneapolis.

A union machinist just won a Texas State Senate seat Trump carried by 17 points. He was outspent four to one. How did he do it? By tossing out the Democrats’ playbook and running a grassroots economic populist campaign with a strong pro-labor message

Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.