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In striving to institute a culture of justice, it's self-defeating to assume humankind is innately selfish, as Golding did in "Lord of the Flies." Rather, we should rally the majority, appealing to their natural instincts for an egalitarian society.

While a new French report highlights moves to reconcile Paris and Algiers on 132 violent years of colonization, some thorny issues remain, not the least of which is France’s refusal to apologize for its wrongdoings during its brutal colonial rule.

While important for everyone, Social Security benefits are particularly important to women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and others who have suffered discrimination.

More important, the agreement calls for a vote of all 400,000 members to decide whether they want direct election of top leaders.

The Palestinian-American poet Noor Hindi does not “write about flowers,” but about the effects of colonization on her people.

This time, unions intend to get something done.

Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront.

Historian Eric Foner on the long tradition of white nationalists clashing with Black people exercising their rights.