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There are many men and women, some known, some lost to history, that saw the intersection of worker’s rights and human rights as essential. These are a few, their stories remain important any time of year, but especially during Black History Month.

The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

Musk’s attacks on federal employees and their unions aren’t just a threat to the specific workers in his current line of fire. They pose an unparalleled danger to every single American.

The European takeaway

Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite

A sordid history to remember and the horrific prospects of a vice president's embrace of Germany's neo-Nazi party.