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The state laws that are now allowed by the Supreme Court in its Dobbs decision do not meet the conditions of a “just law.” We need to be loud and confrontational and disruptive in opposing them.

Worker rights activists are turning to the local level to win protections that are not coming at the Federal level. “It’s not just the coasts..It’s happening in Denver, Chicago, the Twin Cities, smaller municipalities, larger municipalities."

Some hospitals are opening child care centers to help retain nurses and other staff.

The new FX series "The Bear" fictionalizes trying to turn around a failing Chicago sandwich shop, and how chef egos (always) come into play

Canada’s Starbucks organizing wave is moving eastward from British Columbia, with a store in Alberta going union earlier this month. Poetically, the Starbucks union win is on anti-labor Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s home turf.

War, Inflation, Geopolitical Rivalry, and Soaring World Temperatures

For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.

Concerns that "other" groups were demographically outpacing white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant women spurred efforts to limit the bodily autonomy of white women and limit access to contraception in order to force them to have children.

Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.

As millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19, anthropologists are investigating the surprising significance of this underrated sense.