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Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are voting on a last minute contract agreement with UCLA. The tentative agreement includes wage and step increases and seniority protections but excludes housing.

A reverie for an esteemed playwright.

After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.

The deadly attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego did not happen in a vacuum. It is the outcome of years of fearmongering, scapegoating, and dehumanization targeting an entire religious community.

Months into the ceasefire, Israeli officials barred thirty-seven international N.G.O.s. A Doctors Without Borders clinic is carrying on without antibiotics, or even chairs for patients.

Molly Crabapple's inspirational history of the Bund reminded me of the many ways in which the self-styled "Jewish State" is a monument to hatred (of Jews as well as of Palestinians).

How to build a just green future

But figures allied with the Trump administration have challenged the premise that the U.S. government should be – or was meant to be – separate from religion.

Rights advocates say Trump administration is using sanctions and ‘terrorism label’ to silence Palestinian activism.