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Jane LaTour has been active in the labor movement since the 1960s. She has worked in factories and on staff for several unions including District 65, one of New York City’s best-known left-led unions. LaTour also worked for the Association for Union

As we mourn the death of21-year-old volunteer medic Razan Al Najjar, Bram Wispelwey, a doctor working in the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank, shares his account of the political violence and resistance taking place in Palestine.

The increasingly routine consequence of the Trump Administration’s immigration policy to separate children from parents who enter the United States without papers reminded me of a conversation I heard between Henry Kissinger and Ruth K. Westheimer.

A pattern of abuse.

In some well-known firms, employees would have to work considerably more than a thousand years to catch up with their bosses’ income for one year.

Justice vs. free press; As the net de-neutralizes; Battle in Seattle; News bites; Social media burns; War on cartoons

By allowing ordinary Palestinians to describe their plight, Sanders’ video allows Americans to see the Great Return March as the product not of blind hatred of Israel but of a quintessentially human desire for a better life.

They have assumed that North Korea cannot live without nuclear weapons—without making any effort to understand North Korea’s strategy in regard to nuclear weapons.

Planned directive to immigration judges marks dramatic shift likely to affect tens of thousands of migrants

David Graeber explores the question of meaningless jobs in his thought-provoking and hilarious new book, Bullshit Jobs.