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This new book, writes reviewer Quinn, asks "what does freedom look like as a practice, not in the future but now, in our imperfect and unequal world?"

The growing demand for labor has also benefited lower-paid workers. But the financial gains for union workers mean that a category of jobs that have long been seen as supportive of a middle-class lifestyle may now be moving closer to that reality.

The lack of progress has frustrated civil rights leaders and activists who charge that the president isn’t taking the fight for voting rights seriously enough.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

Progressive critics warn failure to bolster the unemployment system during the pandemic "is a shocking dereliction of responsibility."

Bolsonaro’s September 7 rally made clear the crisis of Brazilian democracy isn’t over.

The latest film adaptation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s cult sci-fi novel series, is out next month. With its often-reactionary mix of political cynicism, ecological catastrophism, and lurid orientalism, it remains oddly attractive to left-wing audiences

From communes to techno weaponry - the whole story

Post-Afghanistan, nation (un)building comes home.

Court orders Coahuila to remove sanctions for abortion from criminal code, clearing a path to decriminalisation across Mexico