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Recent events have begun to cause labor activists to seriously consider if a hamstrung NLRB, and emboldened employers, could potentially inspire some unions to push the limits of labor law to try alternative means that are outside the law or if they can and should borrow the strategies used by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to expand civil rights.

REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons

Shadows from the past, sadly evoked by events of the present, from Afghanistan and Gaza to Syria and Mal

Ken Loach's new film, Spirit of '45

The crisis in Mali, Hillary Clinton’s legacy, and why Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay prison.

Probably the best movie you’ll see this year that was smuggled out of Iran in a cake.

Colbert: The War on Terror turns 12. Hannity v Ellison. How realistic were Jurassic Park's velociraptors? Honor Trayvon Martin: build the movement. Elizabeth Warren questions Ben Bernanke. Movie: A Place at the Table.