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Kat Candler will write the Texas-set project about a woman who leads the state's biggest strike.

AFA’s new drive is separate from a preexisting one organized by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. IAM has been organizing Delta flight attendants and ramp attendants since 2010, the year of AFA’s last loss.

Will the US and the Organization of American States once again be able to overturn election results?

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform.

The biggest city in the US is joining a voting reform movement.

Understanding how human behaviors affect the spread and virulence of a disease can inform preparations for the future.

Refugees are expected to share and curate their stories, but this can do more harm than good. The pressure of storytelling can leave refugees feeling disempowered, and there is often the expectation that refugees owe the wider public their stories.

Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently announced a voter purge of 330,000 people that could affect the 2020 elections. Voting rights activists are rallying to fight this and other similar purges throughout the South.

“Algerians cannot and will not put up with being humiliated any longer. They want to live in a democratic Algeria with social justice. The national wealth must be fairly distributed. Clientelism and corruption must be forever banished,”