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State and local government employees in Virginia are poised to gain the right to collectively bargain under a pending bill. But home care and campus workers aren't included.

“The cartels are fueled by the United States’ demand for drugs and armed with US weapons, and thanks to the United States, they are able to orchestrate enormous bloodshed and chaos,” said Mexico’s president.

In the world of Marxism, this debate about the origin of capitalism has gripped scholars who work in many languages.

The earliest reported Women’s Day seems to have been in New York in 1909. In 1975 the United Nations officially recognised March 8th as International Women's Day. Did you see much coverage this weekend? Me neither. So here’s some!

Sorghum making is one of the many things that kept communities connected in the rural South. Our way of working offers the gift of slowness in an age built on the presumptions of speed.

Moderate voters are not like the people who purport to speak for them. And that’s crucial for Democratic candidates and strategists, as well as journalists, to understand. They're not looking for a nominee with a Republican-lite platform.

When Willful Negligence Kills, It’s No ‘Accident’ (2011), Tom Paine, Heroic Journalist (1791), ‘God Is Germany’s Only Judge!’ (1936), Bad Blood Between U.S. and Iran Has a Long History (1951), A Catastrophic Day in Court (1886)

Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.

A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics, ASU's Center for Work & Democracy, & Jacobin reveals that politicians with union backgrounds campaign more aggressively for workers and vote further left — but unions rarely recruit them.

The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.