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The short-term promise of easy cash can trap individuals in bad long-term conditions. This article is the third in a series about how the gig economy is shaping the future of labor and what that means for workers.

One of the most important elements of the Israel lobby in the United States is right-wing Evangelical backing – or Christian Zionism.

What’s the Constitution got to do with climate? Current legal cases are now addressing that question.

Deplorably, legalized racial profiling continues today.

The Israeli forces mowing down unarmed Palestinian protesters also train U.S. police forces that brutalize communities of color.

Monosodium glutamate is a compound molecule in which glutamate is the amino acid responsible for the mysterious deepening of flavor. Its once-vilified reputation has been ascribed to illogic, superstition and even racism.

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

It’s about the bonds social gamers form, not about living the game, fighting evil, or hating the outside world.

Because public-sector unions disproportionately empower and protect African-American women, this class of hyper-exploited workers is poised to be hit hardest by the Janus v. AFSCME anti-union ruling.

Five years after "Pact for Mexico", Mexico's economy is mired in a trap of low investment and low growth and imperiled by liberalization of financial markets making it vulnerable to rate increases by the US Fed and global financial turbulence.