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The coronavirus may not, in retrospect, prove to be the tipping point that upends human civilization as we know it, but it should serve as a warning that we will experience ever more such events in the future as the world heats up.

The undocumented workers who pick the nation's food are excluded from the CARES Act.

The U.S. spends about twice as much per capita for its patchwork health-care system than most industrialized countries. Why were we caught with such shortages of masks, ventilators or hospital beds?

Pandemic is a systemic crisis of capitalism, and the responses worldwide foretell systemic changes.

This is a new history of the radical and emancipatory movements of the 1960s, as those struggles emerged in and helped define Los Angeles during that era.

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We need another aid bill. Elected officials have a responsibility to stabilize both communities and the housing market.

"How did we go from preventing baby dumping, fighting domestic violence to some sad variant of the Obedient Wives Club?"

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a rule making it harder for workers to win and keep a union. At the same time, the Trump NLRB has suspended all union elections,

"Cuba's Cancer Hope" is a new documentary on the two countries' research into a lung cancer vaccine and proves that no political feud can "block" progress.