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This article is from a corporate law firm, but it offers a concise summary of last weeks decision by the NLRB to roll back the rights of workers to engage in protected concerted activity.

Seniors should celebrate Medicare’s 54th birthday by rejecting the fear-based propaganda, and enthusiastically embracing Medicare for All. Under Medicare for All, seniors would pay less out of their pockets — and they would receive more.

The Rosselló government’s corruption and disdain for the people ignited a fight far fiercer than ending his administration. Puerto Rico has had enough of its nonsensical non-status and is revolting against imperialism in all its manifestations.

Pundits have said the Native Hawaiian resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope project is a conflict between science and culture. But the protectors are not against science; they just believe the telescope does not belong on Maunakea’s sacred lands.

Republicans conflate love of Israel with love of America because they see Israel as a model for what they want America to be: An ethnic democracy.

Teachers unions are facing tumultuous times, grappling with financial, legal and public-relations challenges as they fight to retain their clout and build alliances, and deal with declines in membership.

The sad reality is that the only households with any 401(k) savings to speak of are white non-Hispanic, college-educated, married couples. Even within this narrow demographic, all but the wealthiest who use retirement accounts as tax shelters, would be better off under a more egalitarian and efficient system.

President Obama has pardoned two birds each Thanksgiving for the past five years. In both 2009 and 2012, he pardoned more turkeys than people. Overall, Obama has granted clemency to just 39 people.

It has cost the United States $8 trillion to provide military security in the Gulf since 1976. The supreme tragedy is that the US has bankrupted itself ensuring military security for the oil-producing nations of the Gulf when oil production is destroying the world.

Unlike so many leaders who rise of power with the support of organized labor but then distance themselves from the movement, Mandela never broke the bond.