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This year the theme is Black Resistance. "African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores."

The Responsibility of Watching the video of Memphis police beating Tyre Nichols challenges public complacency — and complicity. What are our duties as citizens and as human beings?

A reign of terror from coast to coast

We live in a country where recognizing Black humanity has always been a fight.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is backing a return of rent control, decades after it was banned in a state referendum. But disappointment among tenant activists raises questions about what rent control is supposed to achieve.

A new manifesto calls for building "a sustainable social pact for the 21st century" in which "our rights are guaranteed, not based on our ability to pay, or on whether a system produces profit, but on whether it enables all of us to live well together in peace and equality."

Employers are using heavy-handed tactics to prevent workers from organizing, and U.S. labor union density is falling as a result.

Austerity was once a conservative rationale for cutting spending. Now, it’s an explanation of the consequences.

In a critical assessment of this new book, reviewer Draitser challenges some widely-held views and assumptions about the Russia-Ukraine war.

Inequality, poverty and discrimination lie behind explosion of rural anger against rich Lima