New York
End the 24-hour workday: NYC home health workers begin hunger strike
March 20, 2024These workers, mostly women of color, do it all—cook, clean, change diapers, administer medicine, and more—and they do it 24 hours a day.
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Woolworth’s Sit-Down Strike: When women shut down the world’s biggest retailer
March 5, 2024From the archives: Learning from the UAW’s Flint Sit-Down Strike, young women workers set an example for how to organize and win in the low-wage retail sector in 1937.
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Suozzi win on Long Island shrinks GOP margin
February 15, 2024His election tops a long string of races in the suburbs where voters are rejecting the MAGA Republicans.
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Remembering and reviewing pioneering gay literary editor Michael Denneny
January 18, 2024Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir.
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Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng ignores ceasefire calls, but local coalition refuses to quit
January 18, 2024Meng still won’t budge on the Gaza issue, and she keeps cashing checks from AIPAC.
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