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The ProPublica Guild walked out for a one-day Unfair Labor Practice strike on April 8. With 99% of members voting, 92% voted to authorize strikes unless management agrees to a fair contract. Union President John Schleuss explains the issues at stake.

More than 100 pediatricians who work for Packard Children's Health Alliance, part of Stanford Medicine Children's Health, have filed to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD).

Saïd Khatibi’s ‘The End of the Sahara,’ the first Algerian crime novel translated from Arabic by Bitter Lemon Press, potently critiques Orientalist fantasies of desert romance.

The Afrikaner program treats whiteness as a refugee status and frames a former colonial ruling class as victims. It sits alongside a deportation campaign targeting people the president says are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Iran has basically proposed a detailed plan for its victory and Trump has accepted it as the basis of negotiations. And in the end, the people who will really suffer are those Iranians who want a different, better future.

This contradicts everything the president has said about the war. Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire.

Is this a prelude to asking for the names of all Black people on campus who could have experienced or witnessed racism in the workplace? Or all women, queers, or trans people? Probably not – that would be woke DEI and critical race theory stuff.

Responding to spiraling disaster

Panicked, Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure by 8 p.m. today unless concessions are made. But Iran’s position is stronger than the president is willing to admit.