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Boycotts can reach people otherwise uninterested or disengaged with politics. The challenge — as #deleteUber demonstrated — is using the boycott to effect substantive change rather than relatively minor concessions.

A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.

Praise God and pass the data; Killing O’Reilly; Games then and now; Silly-con saga, parts I and II; Berkeley vs cellphone pushers

How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies

This is the text of opening remarks delivered Sunday, April 23, 2017, at the People’s Action founding convention in Washington, DC – “Rise Up: From Protest to Power.”

About 4,000 low-income participants in Canadian province will receive monthly payments to assess whether program can provide stability and positive changes

Let’s be clear: Populists are leftists. We support human rights, social democracy, peace and ecological sanity. “Populists of the Right” are fascists. Their goal has a clear definition, as put forward by the term’s originator, Benito Mussolini: “Corporate control of the state.” When they take power, they become National Socialists, using the government to enrich the corporations and the rich, rather than Democratic Socialists, or social democrats, . . .

Police violence and interaction could be seen as particularly extreme forms of maternal stress. If one lives in a community that is frequently policed, the accumulative effects of these interactions can have health consequences more insidious than those caused by actual physical violence.

Follow the money. This old adage could not be more true now, as applied to the Trump Administration's budget, released on March 16, 2017 [1]. This cruel and greedy document [2-6] savages everything that we in public health and so many others know is necessary for people, communities, and our planet to thrive [7-9].

How can a global garment value chain that relies on the systemic devaluation of female labour be expected to fulfil promises of empowerment for women informal workers? It can’t. Here’s why.