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Peter Martin's The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language shows Noah Webster as the sort of ideologue who's convinced he has a historical mission and carries himself accordingly, writes Scott McLemee.

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At its core, a fighting labor movement must take on the boss directly, winning fights both big and small that transform life for workers. This should not be in dispute, and it is why socialists have traditionally salted union and non-union shops.

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Neil Young is calling on artists from across the music industry to highlight the plight of immigrant children at the U.S. border, using the children's own words published in court filings.

Sense of fear deepens as Indian politicians stoke misogyny with talk of freedom to marry 'white-skinned' Kashmiri women. At present everyone in Kashmir is being immensely subjugated. But women are the biggest victims of this inhumane siege.

The prime minister’s action might adhere to the letter of the law but in spirit it is an act of wanton constitutional vandalism. Prorogation is a device to silence parliament. Trump has tweeted his support. Is this what Trump sees for our country.

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This new book, says reviewer Rosen, carefully studies the life of the multiracial working class in a U.S. town, and, in the process, "painfully reveals that traditional working-class life is over."

To a steady beat of whistles, car horns and “AB5 and a union!” hundreds of rideshare drivers amassed outside Uber’s corporate headquarters in San Fransisco on Wednesday.

In the past, the Greens were happy if they scraped into regional assemblies in eastern Germany. Now the party is luring voters keen to stop the far right.