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July 19, 2025

Labor Change Will Hurt Workers, Spare Violators

Michael Felsen, M. Patricia Smith The Progressive

Employers will have far less incentive to comply with an anti-wage theft law under a new Department of Labor rule.

July 19, 2025

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes

Veronica Riccobene, Helen Santoro The Lever

Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

July 19, 2025

Film Review: James Gunn’s Superman

Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss

James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.

July 19, 2025

With ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now,’ NAACP Convenes 116th Annual Convention

Dorothy A. Clark The Bay State Banner

For the first time in its history, the NAACP declined to invite the sitting president. Nor was Vice President JD Vance asked to attend. The organization invited Trump to its conventions during his first term in office, which he turned down.

July 19, 2025

What California History Has To Say About the New York Mayor’s Race

Fred Glass The Stansbury Forum

If Mamdani loses, the leadership of the Democratic Party will redouble its push to field empty neoliberal suits in 2026. Harriman’s defeat in LA in 1911 set back the cause of working-class politics for decades.

July 18, 2025