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Today in Guatemala there are sustained attacks on judicial independence and threats against human rights defenders. But after waiting nearly four decades, the families of the victims of wartime atrocities demand their day in court.

The package, negotiated by the Democrats - Gov. Kathy Hochul, and have super-majorities in the two houses of the Legislature, includes massive education aid to localities, significant increases in funding for child care and public universities....

Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement. The vote was 14-0.

Staten Island Amazon workers endured thunderstorms, racism, and arrests to organize in break rooms, bus stops, and grocery aisles to win their union — and one of the world’s most powerful companies couldn’t stop them. Here’s how they did it.

"White Fashion" is a must-see on multiple levels, forcing us to ask: Where are we, really, right now?

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

The rise in inflation has not been driven by anything that looks like an overheating labor market—instead it has been driven by higher corporate profit margins and supply-chain bottlenecks.

The poor are what Dr. King once called “a new and unsettling force” capable of transforming “our complacent national life.”

The result will have major implications for the U.S. government, which has given Colombia more than $13 billion in assistance so far this century, far more than for any other country in the hemisphere.

The open data revolution won’t happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.