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John Lewis declares that, during the 1960s, he was arrested “a few times.” Then the elder statesman and éminence grise of the civil rights movement pauses before correcting himself in front of the large Dallas crowd he’s addressing: “40 times…"

The joys and horrors of social media... Organizing protest! Surveillance stalkerware! And more

The federal government was forcing Harvard and MIT to “choose between a reckless reopening or reopening or forsaking their [international] students,” the universities said.

Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson has a simple message for airline companies’ management who are preparing to demand massive concessions from their workers: absolutely not.

Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership?

The House Foreign Affairs Committee chair must advance "the bold, progressive foreign policy that this country deserves."

The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.

"'Temporary' is the rare novel that reckons with unsteady work," says reviewer Marsh. "If the book is a surreal, absurd, sometimes self-defeating entry in the office genre, that is because temporary work is all those things."

The United States backs anti-narcotics operations as Colombia’s military faces a storm of criticism.

Harry Burt became the frst ice cream vendor to move from pushcart to truck, a move that changed how countless Americans eat—and how they experience summer.