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After historic turnout and increased mail voting in 2020, state lawmakers across the country are pulling in opposite directions by introducing restrictive and expansive voting legislation.

The data analysis was conducted before a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus had been documented in the U.S.

On the 100th anniversary of the Italian Communist Party we should learn from Gramsci's legacy which lies in the attempt Italian Communists made to build forms of direct democracy alongside representative democracy,

50 years ago, the struggle against urban renewal led a group of working class Puerto Ricans on Manhattan’s West Side to form a revolutionary socialist movement, combining community activism, Third World solidarity, and Puerto Rican independence.

Spurred by the success of the Tunisian Revolution, which resulted in the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, 2011, the Cairo uprising shook the country, and then the region and the world. And the Arab Spring was born.

Last April, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that barred water shutoffs. At least 1.6 million California households, or one in eight, have water debt, and they could face shutoffs when Newsom ends the state of emergency.

Many in the labor movement had pushed for Robb’s removal; they cheered. Employers, not so much. But who is Robb and why does it matter?

The energy company’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay out over a 2008 case, Court of Appeal in The Hague rules.

Southern California poet Teresa Mei-Chuc speaks back to the US lethal “counter-terrorist” Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War.

Though the NLRB keeps a lower profile than many other government agencies, it holds a great deal of power over the country’s workers and labor movement.