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Mandatory Overtime Is Inhumane and Dangerous

Mill workers are battling harder than ever against overtime requirements that strain families and put lives at risk.

We shouldn’t treat cannabis like heroin. But we shouldn’t treat it like ketamine either, as a federal agency now recommends.

New data shows big retailers have the cash to hire more workers and pay them well. They just spend it on stocks and CEOs instead.

Pandemic-era gains have transformed the job market for disabled workers — and everyone else. Let’s protect that progress.

Applying a different standard to a powerful person reflects only contempt for the rule of law.

Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.

Governments are failing to protect workers from extreme heat, so it’s no surprise labor actions have been heating up too.

Community-minded nonprofits are rescuing local papers from predatory corporate owners.

Now accepting indulgences.

Trump walks a thin tightrope between the White House and a jailhouse.