This article was co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, ...

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Every Friday at around 6 p.m., farmers in Greensboro, Vermont, descend on Tom Hill’s barn to help out with the Friday evening milking session. As udders are emptied and beers popped open, they catch ...

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Forty years ago, as the AIDS crisis began to accelerate, a group of activists aimed to remove the stigma of the illness and asserted healthcare as a human right. Their manifesto, known as The Denver ...

On September 19, a group of cab drivers organized by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance rolled up to the corner of Broadway and Murray Street in downtown Manhattan, parked next to City Hall, and ...