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‘When Human Government Destroys Human Rights, It Ceases to be a Government, and Becomes a Foul and Blasting Conspiracy; and Is Entitled to No Respect Whatever’ – Frederick Douglass

Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. His new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation.

The rapid evolution of Asian consumer packaged goods (CPGs) has raised the profile of Asian food in America. Just seeing your culture represented [on the shelf] felt very critical to the next generation.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the US government, across Republican and Democratic administrations alike, has been slowly dismantling what was once the most generous asylum system in the world.

From the Women’s War of 1929 to the Anlu uprising three decades later, African women were organizing and resisting long before donors arrived to ‘give them a voice.’

Five activists who vandalized an Elbit Systems factory aim to put Germany and the Israeli weapons company on trial.

I can only conclude that the administration’s plans are either meant to pit stay-at-home parents against working ones, or to punish single parents — and their children — who need support the most.

With Luigi Mangione’s upcoming sentencing, John Oliver devotes the full episode to covering UnitedHealth Group: Why customers hate them, how they got so profitable, and why doctors are wishing explosive diarrhea on their board members.

Two recent books employ inventive approaches to read against the grain of the archive left by those who defended and benefited from human bondage.