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Workers are using creative tactics to win protections against excessive heat in the workplace.

A vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales.

We Africans have to value what we have more and what we are, to value culture, something that is not tangible and cannot be bought and sold, like money.

A Review of “The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right” by Oliver Eagleton, Verso Books 2022

The science of epigenetics suggests we can pass on trauma – but trust and compassion too

Israel’s nuclear program is its worst-kept secret. It was made possible through the support of Western nations like France and has thrived due to a cynical attitude toward nonproliferation that has made the world more dangerous.

When the trickle-down theory first took off in the 1980s, the argument was that tax cuts lift all boats. After 50 years, no one can continue to make this claim—yet they still do.

The show’s first queer storylines have been met with backlash, homophobia, and misogynoir.

Virginia is seeing a significant and remarkable expansion of its small but wily labor movement. In a labor movement urgently in need of new union organizing experimentation it would certainly be of value to consider the situation in Virginia.

Even before Douglass arrived in Ireland in 1845, he was aware of the rich tradition of Irish men and women involved in the transatlantic movement to bring an end to the U.S. system of enslavement.