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Across Europe, platform workers have won a series of court cases ruling that they are employees, not self-employed. Moves for new EU-wide legislation have faced serious resistance from lobbyists but now look set to deliver some new protections.

The movement to save democracy from threats is too quick to overlook the problems that have been present since the founding.

Police are investigating the assault as a potential hate crime as advocates call for local leaders to back a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Woody Guthrie Museum has done a public service spotlighting Ochs’s career. Phil Ochs’s biting commentaries remain resonant in an era where the U.S. government provokes wars overseas and sends young men to fight and die on dubious grounds.

Pickets extended all the way from New Jersey to Spokane, Washington

Conservatives are launching a new battle to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

Victory over climate deniers sends a strong message in defense of climate science and scientists.

The poet C. Liegh McInnis pays homage to the great African American activist, Robert Moses who led the campaign for civil rights in 1960s Mississippi and later the Algebra Project committed to education equality.

The NLRB ruled that Dartmouth men’s basketball players are university employees and can host a union election.

Negative views of the economics of immigration are all wrong. Far from taking jobs away, foreign-born workers have played a key role in America’s recent success at combining fast growth with a rapid decline in inflation.