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When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enrollment to squeeze profit out of childcare and now owns eight of the 11 largest companies.

The mass firings were part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump, a Republican, and billionaire Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy and slash government spending, which has invited a series of legal challenges.

Organizers team up with pro-democracy groups for flurry of actions to demand right to free, healthy lives

The United Auto Workers weren’t always in favor of tariffs; they earlier supported cross-border coordination to support better jobs and a peaceful future.

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”

Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era.

"Pope Francis spoke plainly and with clarity about the climate crisis," said one environmental advocate.

Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), Don’t Mourn, Organize, Heart of Stone (2000)

The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing. It's time to shed flawed assumptions about who Trump is and make sense of what he is doing.

Food, especially seemingly modest ingredients, is a way to signify wealth and luxury tastes. Fashion and design are an extension of that. Wearing food as a design choice signals both that we have a palate for that product and that we can afford it.