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With a solid premise about working-class vampire hunters, Day Shift had real potential — but there’s no escaping the Netflix curse.

The movement follows years of speculation that minor leaguers could unionize to address long-standing accusations of the unfair treatment of players, including wages that frequently fall below the federal minimum and subpar living conditions.

A donor secretly transferred $1.6bn to a Republican political group. Because of America’s lax laws, the donation was never disclosed in any public record or database

Gorbachev never set out to dismantle the Soviet system. What he wanted to do was improve it. Soon after taking power, Gorbachev began a campaign to end his country’s economic and political stagnation, using “glasnost” or openness, to help achieve his goal of “perestroika” or restructuring.

The US military has a long history of recruiting poor people by offering benefits like free college. With Joe Biden’s partial student debt forgiveness, GOP war hawks are fretting that the military won’t be able to prey on desperate young Americans anymore.

New paper argues direct action "by scientists has the potential to cut through the myriad complexities... surrounding the climate crisis in a way that less visible and dispassionate evidence provision does not."

For some black families, chitlins are essential. For a younger generation, the polarizing dish is a dirty trick.

The key ingredient in our oldest vaccine is a mystery that goes back 200 years.

This isn’t full debt cancellation, but it will help a lot of people, especially those who got the rawest deal. That includes millions who have debt but no degree and those who took loans to pay for degrees in trades like cosmetology and mechanics.

Raise Up — the Southern branch of Fight for $15 and a Union —held Worker Power Trainings across the South this summer to give workers a chance to learn from each other and get the basic tools to start talking to their coworkers.