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The writer and activist shares her thoughts on the climate movement’s wins, the key difference between optimism and hope, and the “clarifying” violence climate activists face.

An archaeologist traces the current protests in Peru to exploitive labor policies enacted in silver mines during Spanish colonial rule from 1532 to 1800.

A picture is emerging of a healthy lifestyle which is key to the condition’s prevention – exercise, being sociable, and looking after your ears

The etymologies of food words are a path through the history of how we eat and cook.

A majority of workers at eBay-owned TCGPlayer won their union election on Friday, March 10 and will be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1123.

The fight for democracy must infuse every union’s mission. If it does not, then the very survival of both democracy and the union movement will be imperiled.

These bank failures were entirely avoidable if Congress and the Fed had done their jobs and kept strong banking regulations in place

Larry Cohen argues that the labor movement should seek power not solely in individual workplaces but in entire industries, while Eric Blanc writes that the priority should be unionizing workplaces.

The Supreme Court will have to sort through more than 150 years of byzantine rules and regulations to determine the fate—and the future—of a drying West.

A newly Democratic state government votes to restore some democracy in the workplace.