After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage for service workers, keeping them stuck in precarity and poverty wages.

Uber is spending tens of millions on a California ballot measure that could make it harder for riders, pedestrians, and drivers to sue for damages after car crashes. It is part of a broader liability ...

A new PBS documentary, Henry David Thoreau, reveals the Thoreau often softened in high school textbooks — the abolitionist, antiwar dissident, and ecological thinker whose ideas still challenge a ...

During the conflict in the North of Ireland, British security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries responsible for hundreds of sectarian murders. The record of collusion should be a cautionary ...

Tuesday’s Danish election punished the Social Democrats as well as their center-right government partners. The result again ...

To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income. Two proposals — one in California, one in Congress — could finally do it. The alternative is an ...

The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so ...

Through more than three years in power, Italian premier Giorgia Meloni has often seemed to have an electoral magic touch. Her ...

A look at New York governor Kathy Hochul’s donors and the Jeffrey Epstein files reveals that some of the same billionaires ...

A new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and ...

Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is demanding Rep. Dan Goldman sign a “People’s Pledge” ahead of the congressional primary ...

Donald Trump is weighing whether to make the Iran War even more of a disaster by sending in ground troops. It’s a terrible idea that almost everyone agrees won’t achieve anything but kill US troops ...