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Here’s what launched the militant union leader toward a historic strike.

The most mysterious aspect of quantum mechanics is the wave function. What does it have to do with probability and statistics? Let's find out.

It’s important the left challenges language intended to suppress serious discussion of the war and its causes. You can counter an accusation of spreading disinformation or propaganda with evidence that what you are saying is true.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock forward, at “90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.”

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.

Brandon Johnson, the labor-backed mayor of Chicago, is poised to deliver his first major victory: scrapping the subminimum wage for tipped workers.

The Biden administration is getting bad data and bad advice — but there’s a way out.

The media group was just approved to spread its brand of historical disinformation to classrooms in Florida, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire.

UAW President Fain invited anyone who supports the union — “all the way up to the president of the United States” — to join strikers on the picket lines.

A survivor of the American war in Cambodia, the poet Bunkong Tuon lives with ancestral ghosts and gratitude for what is left.