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“Right now there is a movement of workers across the country who are taking back their power at a scale we have not seen in recent memory,” tweeted Independent Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on October 25.

At the J Street Annual Conference, Sanders was a crowd favorite, and can take credit for creating space for a more robust discussion of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

The media is uninterested in protest movements around the world.

Transitioning utilities to public ownership could help lay the groundwork for a renewable, just future.

The world is shaken by mass rejection of neoliberalism and corruption, and the "pink tide" returns in Latin America.

At a time when women’s crucial and unresolved unpaid labor in the home is largely overshadowed by #MeToo, loss of abortion rights, and an upsurge of violence against women, it is good to be reminded of this core oppression.

When schools introduce these technologies, they open the to door to labeling students’ normal thoughts, words, and movements as dangerous — and potentially involving law enforcement.

Lethal contamination at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California threatens human health 35 years after the base closed.

A Bollywood event in Tel Aviv highlights how both India and Israel are using art to distract from human rights abuses.