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Uncontrolled education, trans rights, cleaning up corruption — and other woke agenda items

If the unionization vote passes, it’ll be a landmark win for more than one reason: It would create the largest video game industry union in the United States, and the first official U.S. union under Microsoft.

Railroads are prioritizing payments to Wall Street stockholders over everything else, including serving the public interest.

The news network said the journalist's killing was part of a "wider attack on Al Jazeera, and journalists in Palestine."

Rents are too high. Joe Biden should issue an executive order to lower them

Strategies that challenge or wield state power may be in tension, but many movements use both simultaneously to transform society.

Has public health failed us? Or have we failed public health?

A train engineer talks about President Biden forcing a contract on rail workers, the failure of rail union leadership during negotiations, and why he thinks progressives in Congress should be commended for their role pushing for seven paid sick days.

Companies making mycelium-based foods advertise sustainability as a selling point; however the energy use of maintaining fermenters (to produce mycelia) can be substantial.

Fortunately, there are some ideas for challenging the control the rich have over the media. We are not going to be able to prevent the rich from buying media outlets. Instead, we will have to go the other way and allow the non-rich to have a voice.