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Cities are spearheading efforts to pass and enforce local labor laws that are improving standards for workers in their communities.

In both access to abortion and a pro-family welfare state, Europe beats the U.S. hands down.

The draft shifts Chile away from the existing Pinochet-era document, enshrining cultural rights and laying out a path of autonomy for Indigenous peoples

Denver’s STAR program sends paramedics and behavioral health clinicians instead of police to respond to 911 calls related to mental health issues, homelessness, and substance abuse. It’s led to a 34 percent drop in crime in its operating districts since 2020.

This decade-old book is especially relevant now.

Over 400 Planned Parenthood workers in five states will begin voting by mail this week in a union organizing election. The National Labor Relations Board will tally votes July 21.

Critics are fawning over Good Luck to You, Leo Grande for its “brave” sex positivity. But the crowd-pleasing comedy is actually anxiously prescriptive, and it relies on an angelic and selfless sex worker to teach a middle-aged woman how to love her body.

Rightist media set the stage for fascist violence

Seventy-five years ago, the labor movement suffered its greatest setback of the 20th Century: the Taft-Hartley Act.

The legislative fix made by Maine lawmakers offers a model for lawmakers elsewhere who are alarmed by the court’s aggressive swing to the right.