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‘Who defines what peaceful is?’ A deep divide over protests.

Given that Starbucks would go to such lengths to stop just a handful of stores from joining a union, it’s no surprise that it took 50 years after its founding for a single café to unionize. And it’s no wonder it's seen as a groundbreaking event.

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.

No holiday break for culture wars

In new book,The Privatization of Everything, Cohen and Mikaelian, describe and debunk the vast array of privatization schemes that now litter the landscape, from private prisons and charter schools to for-profit water treatment and trash collection.

The conventional Beltway wisdom is that all Mountain State Democrats think like Manchin. The reality is a lot more complicated.

"Kellogg's union members stood strong and undeterred in this fight, inspiring generations of workers across the globe, who were energized by their tremendous show of bravery as they stood up to fight and never once backed down." Anthony Shelton

"We believe in a plurinational state and the self-determination of our original peoples." Gabriel Boric, newly elected President of Chile.

Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with the existential problems of our times.

The world’s wealthiest countries make a big show of fighting climate change without offering poorer countries the finances to switch to renewable energy.