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How did the biggest-ever mobilization of fast-food workers come about, and what is its endgame?

Yes, this is a politically difficult moment for President Obama. But everyone needs to chill out.

Report by New York attorney general is first detailed examination of policy deemed unconstitutional earlier this year

Most scientific fields have been made over with a revolutionary theory at least once in recent centuries. Such makeovers, or paradigm shifts, reorder old knowledge into a new framework. Revolutionary theories succeed when the new framework makes it possible to solve problems that stymied the previous intellectual regime. Here are my favorite revolutions. I’m hoping for more before I die.

Socialist candidate, Kshama Sawant has a 1,000 vote lead for a City Council seat in Seattle Washington. The Working Families Party could have been a viable progressive force, but only if it stayed consistent in its own agenda.