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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...

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, powerful Black women writers have created a ripple effect, inspiring future generations of Black women to pen their own powerful narratives.

Yascha Mounk argues that democracy and liberalism are not synonymous and counsels Americans to look to the examples of Hungary, India and Turkey.

Frontier Communications workers throughout West Virginia are on strike after the Communication Workers of America and Frontier Communications could not come to an agreement for a new contract with CWA 142. The previous contract expired on March 3.

Her suit is a reminder that it’s getting harder for powerful men to pay for women’s silence.