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Thunder on the labor front

After a months-long organizing campaign, the resident and fellow physicians at the University of Pennsylvania voted to unionize. The doctors’ victory marks a significant moment for the labor movement in Philadelphia, as it is the largest successful union election in over 53 years.

Chi Boy is part memoir, part social history, part eulogy for his ancestors, and part tribute to men whose literary output continues to inspire him.

A united opposition group led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu could finally end the Turkish president’s decades of power

Potentially the most consequential shift has come from the Biden administration.

The unspoken agreement between the two major parties is to omit any serious discussion of raising taxes to avoid hitting the debt ceiling. That omission entails deception.

"It's shameful that Americans are left food insecure and have to skip meals while corporations and their wealthy shareholders enjoy the spoils of supersized profits under unjustified price hikes."

A not-so-civil war continues

Manuela Martelli’s new film examines the Pinochet dictatorship through the eyes of a woman who never intended to play an active role.

The right question is whether Congress — after passing the spending bills that created these debts in the first place — can invoke an arbitrary dollar limit to force the president and his administration to do its bidding.