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In the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the very image and essence of hardship and harm in ways that violate the most basic tenets of democracy and justice.

As the year comes to a close, take a look back to one of the most surprising and exciting labor uprisings of 2018.

The Trump administration has made a point to eviscerate regulations of all types.

Midge, Sherman-Palladino seems to hope, can do what few women before her have managed: Put herself first above everything else, while still demanding that audiences like her.

As the NPR/Frontline data analysis shows lowering overall mine dust doesn't necessarily reduce silica exposure to safe levels.

Davis, one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the US, is an icon of the black liberation movement, Davis’s work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across 3 generations

Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States?

Does the U.S. government’s priority for military spending explain, at least partially, the discrepancy between the worldwide preeminence of the U.S. armed forces and the feeble global standing of major American domestic institutions?

What may be most surprising is that we humans have done as well as we have in games that seem, now, to have been made for machines.

The willingness of Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies to embrace American Islamophobia in their attacks on two progressive Muslim-American women, and others, reveals the deep schism between the autocracies of the Arab world and their expatriates.