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In Bugonia, Emma Stone plays a kidnapped pharmaceutical CEO trying to convince her deranged abductors that she’s not a sinister alien in disguise. As a portrait of our political impasse, it’s a shocking, wild ride with an ending you won’t see coming.

The government shutdown was a test showing where progressive forces are strong and where they’re weak. The results are in after last night’s Democratic capitulation to the GOP: most top union leaders are failing to meet the moment.

As the Trump Administration guts the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA patients and workers are fighting to save it.

The Democrats’ problem is not age. It’s corporate and centrist Democrats of all ages.

As of October 17, the dealers at the Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino in Shelbyville, Indiana, were on strike for union recognition. “It was one of the most beautiful moments of human solidarity I’ve ever had the pleasure of being part of.”

The museum says it will work with the Detroit Institute of Arts employees through the process of voluntary recognition.

The seemingly unending barrage of stressful news is a strategy with ties to the past.

Artists in New York City are using their art to strengthen the Mexican community in the face of federal immigration raids.

People who are just dumped through the border gate find themselves in cities like Tijuana. Families get meals at the food distribution sites because they don’t have enough money to eat.