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Rather than recognizing that animation, like any art form, goes through periods of certain styles being more prevalent than others, some fans appear to be convinced that they’ve uncovered an insidious conspiracy to de-gender cartoon characters.

Trump Choice Not to Tap FLRA General Counsel Keeps It From Functioning

The Grand Old Party, the poet Anthony Squiers reports, “it never really was about morality.” Go know.

An homage to the esteemed late novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Roth, who died on May 22, leaving a legacy of thick description of an American culture where, in Roth's ironic words, “everything goes and nothing matters."

State-wide prevailing wage legislation, modeled after the federal Bacon-Davis Act, has served to protect the wages and safety of construction workers. Now these laws are under attack with Michigan becoming the third state to pass a repeal.

Mandela was not just "a brilliant political tactician and legal mind, but also an exquisite writer," says reviewer Goff. These letters give us a man of high ideals whose "fight for survival" in prison adds Goff, "would have broken many of us."

On June 27, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to public sector unions that could affect many library workers. More than a quarter of librarians (26.2%) and around one-fifth of library technicians (19.3%) and library assistants 22.7%) are members.

“If Americans are convinced that their stiff-upper-lip brand of silence in the face of collective murder is the true face of patriotism, then we are condemned as a nation to follow the path of empires that preceded us.” - Doug Rawlings

As an organization with many members who have disabilities, Hand in Hand is making important connections between immigrant liberation and disability justice.

When I tell strangers that I’m a food writer, they tell me I’m lucky, and then ask, “How do you eat all that food?” I rarely tell them the whole truth.