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State Republicans devastated unions, but union electoral power is crucial to defeating Trump. Now there is heightened union support across the country and increased labor activity in Wisconsin. Can Democrats seize on renewed enthusiasm for unions?

Lithium mining in Serbia reveals the ever-expanding extractivist frontiers and integration of peripheries. Yet, the resistance to the lithium mining project, serves as a testament to the possibility of fighting for alternative sustainable futures.

Private equity firms are buying up asbestos liability claims — and asbestos victims will pay the price.

The NSEU had been engaged in negotiations with the Samsung management on these demands since January.

In persisting with its high rates policy, the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel Without a Cause.

California poet Alison Luterman wants to know why two antiques are running for the presidency while the talent of competent women is ignored, and it’s no joke.

Construction workers are almost six times more likely to die by suicide than by an incident on a job site and much much greater than people in other jobs.

It follows from reputable studies of longevity that the best protocol for living a good, long, fulfilled and productive life is to focus on nailing what actually matters, and then not stress about the rest

In rejecting facts to please their political party—and their patrons—the justices of the Court’s majority have broken their oath, made to both the Constitution and the American people.

Ocasio-Cortez’s articles of impeachment against the rogue justices probably won’t remove them. But history suggests it might help tame the court in other ways.