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U.S. law did not even address the issue of separating public restrooms by sex until the end of the 19th century.

Once upon a time, a small group of indigenous people took on the Klan and won in the rural South in 1958.

Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MORE) earns an important foothold for an emerging rank-and-file challenger at New York City's United Federation of Teachers (UFT).

Why do reality television’s most popular stars so uncannily resemble the heroines of the 19th-century writer’s work?

Political courage might seem to be in short supply, but it was inside a young boxer from Louisville

The 2016 “Reason Rally” features Bill Nye, Margaret Cho, Wu-Tang Clan and others as secular groups borrow playbooks from the LGBTQ movement and the Religious Right.

Elsevier is an academic publishing company based in Amsterdam that annually publishes hundreds of thousands of articles to the tune of $2,000,000,000 in revenue. Meanwhile, The European Union has announced that all scientific papers published there and based on publicly funded research will be freely available beginning in 2020.

In the seventy years since organized labor gave up on shorter hours, not only did the length of the U.S. work week bottom out, then begin a steady climb that still continues, but labor force participation rates also rose. Women work for pay at ever-increasing levels; the elderly work until death. Ever-more hours work are siphoned from households, drawing in ever-more people.

In her recent address honoring the distinguished Palestinian intellectual and activist Edward Said, noted Canadian author and environmentalist Naomi Klein speaks to the urgent need for the environmental movement to understand Said and other anti-imperialist, postcolonial thinkers; or what we can learn from reading Said in a warming world. Klein says without that knowledge there is no way to understand how we ended up in this dangerous place or how we can get out of it.

Tom Morello told Bloomberg Politics, “Well there a thing called the Republican National Convention in July and that’ll be a perfect place for a band like Prophets of Rage to cause a ruckus and we will be there on the streets in the fields and in the concert hall.”