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The Oscar-nominated actor talks about her new role playing equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and why the Trump administration should be careful

How to win a Pulitzer

United Food and Commercial Workers President Mark Perrone is expected to announce his retirement this week. The reform organization Essential Workers for Democracy (EW4D) is pushing for a transparent and democratic process to choose a successor.

Gun Control? What’s That? (2000), Many Bullets, No Justice (1970), Famous But Unknown (1950), What’s In a Name? A Lot (1990), Riot or Rebellion in Miami? (1980), Lay Down that Sword and Shield (1960), Strong-Arm Tactics Aren’t Pretty, But . . (1960)

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction. Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

We can’t help but connect what is happening in our country today to a long history in the Americas of governments’ use of enforced disappearance. Three experts with direct experience provide lessons in how to protest, to mobilize, to fight back.

That chasm between language and reality, “the ravine between declared principles and real aims,” obscured both the atrocities of the war and the real motivations for the invasion.

The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?

Pouchification: convenience, efficiency, and the environmental impact of our great shift to plastic.

Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.