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"A Shooting that Demands an Explanation"

Federal Budget, Social Security, Medicare, Cuba blockade, inequality and drones

Former North Carolina GOP precinct chair Don Yelton stirred controversy with his racially charged interview on The Daily Show about the state's voter ID law, but are his views on the law really out of line with the party's?

Too often feminists and leftists dismiss the importance of sports in society and only focus on the machismo culture encouraged by professional/college athletics. Although that culture is real to an alarming extent, I dare say it is also an elitist attitude that is not conducive to mass organizing and needs to be re-considered.

The total jobs gap in local public education as a result of the Great Recession and its aftermath is around 389,000 jobs

Thursday’s testimony on the HealthCare.gov debacle was a spectacle of tech illiteracy and buck-passing.

Nations Be Spying, Yo. Crash Course: History of Life on Earth. Wendy Davis, in Her Own Words. Stop Watching Us. Fortunate Son. Movie: 12 Years a Slave.

We need to own up to is that privatization experiments, based on ideology rather than evidence, have created disruption, neglect, and harm to vital public services and infrastructure - and those effects have undermined the private sector which depends on high quality public services. We seem to have forgotten that the public sector has long created the environment and resources necessary for businesses to prosper.

Texas new voter ID law could prevent women who use maiden names or hyphenated names from voting. Women must present original documents verifying their name change. So far Texas has issued 41 free voter IDs to women who request one - out of 1.4 million Texas voters who lack the required documents.

Despite the massive attention it's gained, this movement is still in its infancy. It must be built with strong workplace and community networks. This summer, we went on strike for very concrete demands. But we also went on strike for dignity, respect, and power. Because militancy works. My bosses don't taunt me about going on strike anymore. After striking, I got a raise - and more than a dozen co-workers asking me how they could join the union.