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For years, the U.S.-based Pastors for Peace defied the embargo on Cuba with “caravans” of humanitarian aid hauled across the U.S.-Mexico border that were then shipped to the island.

This essay has been adapted from Arlie Hochschild’s new book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press), which will be published on September 6th. The Tea Party, a Sinkhole in Louisiana, and the Contradictions of American Political Life.

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In the past year, UMass administrators have eliminated all funding for full-time Labor Center graduate students (including teaching and research assistantships), all funding for part-time faculty who teach the required curriculum and cut the Director's position from 12-months to 9-months. The course on collective bargaining was cut from the curriculum.

Why “no job loss” is the wrong standard for setting the right wage floor.

Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters were prejudiced. If anything, her numbers are too low.

FX’s new comedy Better Things, created by and starring Louie’s Pamela Adlon, is an acerbic look at the life of a working actress raising three children.

For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went on strike—and it worked.

The system indeed is rigged, but that doesn’t make elections impossible to win.

After decades of atrocities, the warlords were finally being held to account. Then the Americans stepped in.