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Parliament stands empty shut down by a Prime Minister running away from scrutiny. But we mustn’t mistake the drama at Westminster for real politics. Real politics is about giving power to people so they can take control of their own lives.

Outside of fabulous photos, parties, people, and sales, the fashion capital also produces world-class waste.

Decades after the US retreat from Vietnam, the causes of the war and the outcome are still controversial if not murky, its lessons still not understood by US foreign policy makers. A comprehensive new book aims to clear away much of the detritus.

The Insanity of Our Nuclear Weapons Policy

It’s one of the 20 largest workforces to unionize in the country this year.

"Come by here": Listen as the Maine-based poet Arielle Greenberg takes you to the radical roots , the heritage and legacy of the oft-maligned song, Kumbaya.

Teen Vogue runs an op-ed column, No Class, dedicated to worker struggles and the American labor movement. This week's column focuses on the troubling working conditions at nail salons and the organizing efforts to change them.

Two new official reports out of Washington trace our growing economic divide and the high price we pay, in dollars and lives, for letting that divide fester.

Voting systems matter. Ours needs reform. When races attract many candidates ranked choice voting can provide a truer expression of voters' preferences than the current system. And it's actually being adopted.

A beaming Trump pronounced “total victory” over the weather, which he called “the enemy of the people.”