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The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president.

In a right-to-work setting, workers have the option to be free riders, receiving the benefits of unionization without paying membership dues or fees.

California poet Dorothy Barresi nails a certain candidate on the campaign trail: "tight tense talk & leering merit of American man" and guess who she means.

Democrats have a problem the Republicans don’t. The pursuit of big money drives establishment Democrats to adopt positions — and to nurture a political culture — that prevents them from winning their natural constituencies.

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

Marx’s work remains the most compelling framework for analyzing how the conflicting tendencies in present-day society contain the seeds of a more humane future.

Stephen Colbert (The Other One) on Michelle Wolf's WHCD Speech. Parody of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows. Movie | Sorry to Bother You. Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Lied About Stormy Daniels. Michelle Wolf Complete Remarks at 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

CounterSpin interview with Peggy Case on water rights. ‘People Have to Strengthen the Laws Protecting the Water.’ Janine Jackson interviewed Peggy Case about Michigan water rights for the April 13, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

The Border Patrol not only recruits from the military and receives military training, but uses military equipment and technology prodigiously. The monoliths of the military-industrial complex have long been tailoring their technologies to homeland security operations.

The picturesque Palestinian village of al-Walaja, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, is known for its verdant landscape, agricultural terraces and numerous springs.