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Mass media as stepping stone—three talking heads who lie their way to political dominance

This bill was a chance to do big things. It did very modest things. It was a chance to stand up boldly for the working families of our country and restore their faith in government. It didn't.

The Bill makes concessions to the fossil fuel industry as frontline community groups call on Biden to declare climate emergency

The United Farm Workers union set out for a 24-day march from Delano to Sacramento, the state’s capital.

"We face the risk of having to live through a dictatorship once again—and this is inconceivable," one of the proclamation's authors warned.

I believe that when Black people tell our own stories, we can shift the axis of the world and tell our REAL history of generational wealth and richness of soul that are not told in our history books. – Beyoncé

We need to think in multiple dimensions to understand why certain things happen, or don’t happen. We are fighting people who break norms, rules and laws. They are willing to lie, cheat, steal, threaten to destroy others and our entire system to win.

Carroll is drawn to the eccentric and the oddball. In sinuous free verse, he limns a series of arresting anecdotes, few longer than a page, as he searches for Homo Americanus.

How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.

US labor law is designed to prevent railroad strikes like the kind that shook America in the past. But the constant cuts to staffing levels and erosion of conditions for rail workers could produce a national rail walkoff by September.