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In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home.

Two high-ranking police officials have dropped out of a planned training junket in Israel after campaigning from local human rights activists.

The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.

As I see it, the challenge ahead is to build progressive infrastructure everywhere we can, but especially in key states that were narrowly won by Trump in 2016 – Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania – and in key states such as North Carolina...

The U.S. aerial bombardment of the city of Raqqa, Syria, similar to its bombardment of Mosul, Iraq, was itself terror in the extreme, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. These are huge war crimes.

In the book, “Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat,” Marion Nestle, emerita professor of nutrition at New York University, discusses how the unstated goal of most company-sponsored studies is to increase the bottom line.

Despite lots of bad news, workers around the world have been fighting back, and sometimes winning!

For the past decade, mental health clinicians in California have been leading an offensive campaign to increase patients’ access to timely care.

A new documentary stops just short of examining how a system of oppression contributed to the young woman’s apparent suicide.

Unlike income inequality, wealth inequality along racial lines in the US has received relatively little attention. New evidence on the changing landscape of relative wealth among whites, blacks, and Hispanics between 1983 and 2016.