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The new crop of pro-worker legislators who have recently been elected at the state and local levels can pass laws that can rebuild the labor movement, even with Donald Trump as president. Here are six ways they can do it.

On a recent trip to the People’s Republic, I came face to face with cutting edge AI research—and the regime’s Orwellian surveillance tools

Scientists are calling for a global effort to protect vegetable biodiversity as traditional varieties and wild relatives disappear.

Die Linke surges past the SPD in polls as it battles austerity and the far-right—and names the genocide in Gaza.

Since the 19th century, the choice between independence and incorporation into the US has been a central issue for Puerto Rican politics. Support for the left-wing Puerto Rico Independence Party is now surging among the country’s youth.

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said

The 25th Knesset has now dissolved, bringing an end one of the most consequential and destructive political periods in Israel's history. As Israel heads toward elections, what has changed both in law and political culture? What can be reversed?

The Senate nominee has woefully undercooked ideas on Supreme Court reform—and that’s a problem.

Trump Asked SCOTUS to Let Him RIG the Midterms