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Set against the corrupt, soulless “greed is good” (or was it greed is god?) era of Reaganomics, the punk characters of Repo Man consist of cynical suburban youth...

UAW Local 4811, representing student workers from the University of California system, are holding a strike vote in response to the university’s actions against pro-Palestine protesters

New York labor law will require employers to provide paid leave for pregnant employees for prenatal care, starting 2025.

The Affordable Connectivity Program is about to come to an end—unless Congress does something.

With drugs like Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Ozempic in the mix, new vistas of corporate exploitation have opened up.

The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.

First, what makes an individual more or less likely to identify as an atheist? Second, what makes someone more or less likely to adopt an atheistic worldview over time?

I have never understood the trope that Israel made generous offers to the Palestinians (it never did) but that the Palestinians rejected them, and therefore the Palestinians should be deprived of all their basic rights forever.

The war on Gaza, with all the killing and destruction it has caused, must provide a historic opportunity to start a new path towards a landmark settlement that ends the century-old conflict and achieves stability and peace in the Middle East