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Southern Foodways Alliance talks about the food and drink culture of the South and tells stories that hope to change people’s perceptions and understandings about the South.

The expected anti-union Janus decision is bad news but unlikely to be a disaster for unions and may even be the wake-up call that they need. Janus is the Roman god of transitions, and this may be a big one for the labor movement.

The British miniseries Collateral, which premiered on Netflix last Friday after an initial run on BBC Two last month, is to a post-Brexit United Kingdom what recent seasons of American Horror Story: Cult, American Crime, and even Broad City are to a post-Trump United States.

Within the last 10 days, 30,000 Arizona teachers have flooded into their own Facebook group, Arizona Educators United, and begun a series of highly visible actions, sporting their “Red for Ed” T-shirts wherever they go.

Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters. How Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms turned ‘likes’ into a political tool

Under Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios, assessment system shaved $1 billion from Chicago’s most expensive homes, while owners of lower-valued homes picked up the tab.

Forget Monopoly. There are new games that challenge us to turn our competitive drive toward solving social problems.

There have been just a few more digits added to pi since Archimedes got to 3.141.

Philip Morris International, the world’s largest tobacco company, is investing billions of dollars in an attempt at reputation rehabilitation, including millions in the creation of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). But there is a big distinction between “smoke-free” and “tobacco-free”.

Unions give workers the power to improve their workplaces, and have a long history of creating lasting, progressive changes, from the institution of the eight-hour workday to health and safety regulations. Maybe someone in your family — a parent, an aunt or uncle, a grandparent — is in a union.