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This book, by pediatrician, scientist and activist Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, is the first-hand account of record of the Flint Water Crisis, written by the person that brought the catastrophe to the public's attention.

"We're just getting started. We're going to change America for hundreds of years. Thank you to everyone who is forcing change."

For Asian and Asian-American viewers, "Crazy Rich Asians" which opens on Aug. 15, is important not just as something of a cinematic Halley’s comet — before “Joy Luck Club” in 1993, there was “Flower Drum Song” in 1961, and now what?

Our era is ripe for change. Neoliberalism is politically and morally bankrupt, yet a new vision for economic policymaking in the 21st century has yet to be fully articulated, let alone become a convincing alternative to the neoliberal model.

The more trust is destabilized, the greater the economic distress. And so the Trump spiral spins onward, circling down an economic drain of his own making.

What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place.

Fash in DC; ACLU in Transition; Bookstore Wreckers; QAnon and its Discontents; Three Books on White Supremacy

For many black Americans, unions have been life-changing ladders to the middle class. Black workers organized in labor unions have better pay and fairer treatment. But the hard-fought gains of the black labor movement may be be under threat.

For Haitian refugees, Trump is not a new abomination, or even a reincarnation of former Haitian exclusion, but rather a continuation of persecution against Haitians fleeing instability that U.S. empire has itself contributed to...

Ten organizations representing over 25,000 Mexican workers announced on 13 July the imminent creation of a Federation of Democratic and Independent Unions in the automotive sector.