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About 560 Starbucks locations have voted for union representation since the first vote to unionize four years ago, according to the union Starbucks Workers United.

The labor organizer at the core of the Starbucks Workers United campaign wants a braver labor movement. Their new book is titled "Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World."

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

Nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle's new book, What to Eat Now, is a field guide for the supermarket of 2025.

A new US national security document codifies backing far-right nationalist parties in Europe as a core part of America’s strategy. A top European leader responds, “What we cannot accept is the threat to interfere in European politics.”

Nelson Mandela’s message of peace, compassion, and forgiveness is real, and everyone should try to practice it. If we fail, but still fight against injustice, then we remain balanced. That alone is a form of personal transformation.

Worsening inequality leaves young adults worse off than their parents.

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Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a physician and Palestinian leader, said the statement “indicates dangerous Israeli intentions of annexing 53% of the little Gaza Strip, and to prevent reconstruction of what Israel destroyed in Gaza.”

A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the twentieth century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.