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Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd, the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, erected in 1890, has been a focus of protests, graffiti, and public pressure calling for the removal of this offensive symbol of Confederate aspiration.

Labor organizations and tenants’ associations have a lot of common ground. After all, tenants are workers, and workers need housing. Decades ago, unions built affordable housing cooperatives for workers.

Will older, socially conservative voters care so much about culture-war issues in the midst of a pandemic? This Bronx election suggests political patterns might evolve more broadly among older voters in places like Florida and the Sun Belt.

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Lawmakers are about to undertake their first major antitrust hearing in 50 years. They should make tech companies squirm.

ProPublica found at least 15 large companies that received over half a billion dollars in PPP loans using the same technique: Getting multiple loans sent to smaller entities they own.

"The deliberate delaying of Americans' mail delivery would be a stunning act of sabotage against our Postal Service."

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