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It is very important for progressives to keep building a movement to demand a plan for jobs – like the Back to Work Budget.

Where can we turn politically? Who is on our side, to fight for an alternative?

Meet Crystal Dupont and John White. Both are struggling to live on minimum wage, one at the start of her career and the other toward the end of his.

In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or any other external source, morality for de Waal springs bottom-up from our emotions and our day-to-day social interactions, which themselves evolved from foundations in animal societies.

Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot–not always in ways you might expect.

Nigerian author recognised for key role in developing African literature has died in Boston, where he was working as a professor

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