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Of the twenty-three categories of James Beard Awards this year, (some of which were awarded to groups or entire restaurants), well over half were won by women or people of color.

Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination for governor, has called for eliminating the strike ban for New York State public workers.

A rule proposed recently by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, under the Trump administration, would prohibit home health aides who are paid directly by Medicaid from having their union dues automatically deducted.

Representation alone isn’t enough to make a show political. You have to do something with it. Claws finds a way to tie its characters to a broader political narrative in almost every episode.

If politics is the art of the possible, then radicalism must be the capacity to imagine new possibilities

My colleagues and I thought that if the brain is able to read these molecular records when writing its long-term memories, we should be able to read them, too.

Don’t fall for the tired and defeatist notion of “the powerful always win, so what’s the use?” We proved that the powerful can lose. -- Michael Withey

Arsène Tchakarian was the last surviving member of a Communist military unit in the French Resistance. Mainly Jews and immigrants, they risked everything to fight the Nazi occupation.

Women in low-wage jobs are particularly likely to seek and be denied pregnancy accommodations, given the physically demanding nature of many low-wage jobs and a culture of inflexibility in many low-wage workplaces.

The United States is the most dangerous place in the developed world to give birth, and according to USA Today, up to 60 percent of the hypertension-related deaths and up to 90 percent of hemorrhage-related deaths are preventable with proper care.