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What begins as a timely exploration of legal corruption transforms into a story of distinctly male toxicity.

Harvard withheld annual raises and performance bonuses from unionized academic workers across the University this summer, prompting Harvard Law School clinical instructors to file an unfair labor practice charge

How a worker-led coalition won Philadelphia’s POWER Act (the Protect Our Workers, Enforce Rights Act), and how they’re fighting to make it real.

Half a century ago, feminists won Roe v. Wade with mass demonstrations and a sweeping national vision. A veteran of that movement argues that today’s fight requires the same strategy.

A system that covers the consequences of a disease while refusing to cover its treatment is just moving costs downstream.

If passed, new legislation backed by DoorDash would strip DC of the ability to change its own tax code.

Corporate media attached the label “far left” to the name Antifa, as though being anti-fascist is somehow now beyond the pale. Doing that, they legitimized government efforts to take the First Amendment activities, and make them suspect.

Why did thousands seek out this socialist organization; why did they join it; what did they accomplish; what movements did they build; what mistakes did they make; what might today’s generation of activists and socialists learn from them?

Building a mass left in the United States is a slow and bruising process, and there is no single tipping point at which the party and its voters suddenly become committed leftwing partisans.

Twain called the Paige machine “a cunning devil, knowing more than any man that ever lived” and claimed it would make “telephones, locomotives,” even “Babbage calculators” seem like “mere toys, simplicities!”