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Tweets containing false information tend to be more novel and to elicit greater surprise and disgust than tweets with real news. That novelty and emotional charge seem to be what generates more retweets.

The women of GirlTrek are traversing 100 miles of the Underground Railroad to highlight Black female health and wellness.

Transcripts obtained by The Atlantic show Donald Trump's longtime confidante corresponded with the radical-transparency group.

Women journalist face an unacceptable scale of violence and abuse around the world. Unions are campaigning to draw attention to the failure of government and employers to deal with these human rights abuses.

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The American Dream, should be one of equality and inclusion, with fundamental rights of all Americans guaranteed. Unionization as a seamless aspect of democratic society; universal collective bargaining and full employment an essential policy goal.

After the Parkland massacre, with an estimated 265 million private guns, high school teacher Belle Chesler takes us inside an all-American school-cum-shooting-gallery - what a grown-up thinks about the nature of American life while locked down.

The United States women’s soccer team has taken on leadership roles in their own sport while becoming advisors to female athletes around the world. Aly Raisman’s lawsuit against the US Olympic Committee is a call for justice and true accountability.

A year before #MeToo erupted in the United States, women in Argentina were fighting against an epidemic of violence against women in which, on average, one woman is killed every 30 hours.

On the 50th anniversary of G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America, the author and 11 others take stock of the book’s findings about class and power in the United States, focusing on the drive to privatize public schools, extend power abroad...