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New York hospitals are ignoring striking nurses’ demands for patient and health care worker safety and respect and trying to weaken one of the city’s most important unions. Mayor Mamdani and his movement have a key role to play in helping nurses win.

Government corruption and overreach are frequent themes in both Marvel Comics and the MCU. The same week the series was released, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faced public heat regarding the actions and overreach of ICE agents.

Parents’-rights crusaders seeking to impose their Christian nationalist vision on the United States took their playbook from South America.

The attorney general wrote that the directives must be rescinded, adding that the government's instructions 'do not exist in a vacuum,' but part of a 'series of governmental moves aimed at curtailing criticism that does not find favor with the author

The first time since 1964 that New York City has set a minimum wage standard for private sector workers and other top labor stories in New York City. Mayor Mamdani addresses the $12 billion budget gap left by his predecessor Mayor Adams.

The administration’s efforts show the lengths to which Trump is willing to go to lay the groundwork for 2026

The researchers produced a report that was central in a Trump administration effort to stop regulating climate pollution.

The ACLU is trying to overturn a current NLRB precedent that protects workers’ rights to complain about their working conditions.

The answer is not just to get rid of an individual official. It's to insist on human rights for everyone, and to create a system in which punishment is not the central and defining feature of government for whole sectors of the U.S. population.

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst