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A month of renewed protest and repression

Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year

Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today. From The Wall Street Journal, 1/24/2009

The Court may be ready to scuttle remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act by giving states the ability to racially gerrymander by claiming that they’re only engaging in partisan gerrymandering. It's outrageous.

A church-run charter school is on track to open in Oklahoma — publicly funded but run by the archdiocese. The arrival of religious charter schools is one more piece of evidence that public charter schools are not so public after all.

The U.S. Senate must reject Abrams’ nomination. Diplomacy should be guided by individuals who prioritize human rights, transparency and accountability, not by those who have enabled atrocities.

Minimum wage mandated (in 1938), City water comes to Boston (1848), Anyone know Choctaw? (1918), London says, Victory to the N.L.F! (1968), Good-bye to Penn Station (1963), Europe says No to nukes (1983), Mars attacks (1938)

Central Land Council and Antar issue statements after week of silence, with latter claiming voice defeat an ‘unparalleled act of racism by white Australia’

In the early 1900s, Ford Motor Company commanded strong loyalty from Detroit’s black workers. But the United Auto Workers broke Ford’s stranglehold through patient organizing, cementing an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Taking the moral high ground despite the horrors of the enemy can be a winning strategy.