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For much of the 20th century, America's unions were known for their fierce and relentless advocacy of manufacturing workers -- mostly men, working relatively high-paying, blue-collar jobs at steel mills and auto plants. But as the U.S. has moved from a manufacturing economy to a service-based one, the face of ...

We Americans are a busy bunch. We shop. We worship. We tend to our families. But mostly we eat, sleep, work and watch TV. That's the key finding from a University of California researcher who's made it his mission to help average people visualize complex sets of data. Nathan Yao, who's published his findings ...

There have always been Americans, who have run around the world to chase history, to Paris in the 1920s, to Spain during her Civil War, to Berlin as the Wall crumbled. As Hunter S. Thompson wrote of San Francisco in the 1960s: "no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were ...