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Tony Benn served in the House of Commons and in Labor cabinets, but he was perhaps most influential after he resigned from Parliament. He wrote and campaigned in favor of genuine democracy tirelessly, and on other issues including against the invasion of Iraq.

Conversations with workers on both sides of the union battle reveal that the macho culture at the plant, helped fuel the anti-union campaign by low-level management and workers, who stressed obedience to authority and masculine self-reliance as reasons to reject the UAW.

The placement of private schools in public school space is overcrowding public schools and blocking efforts to reduce class size. A lawsuit spearheaded by NYC public school parents opposes such 'co-location.'

“The issue ... is not religion versus non-religion, or religion versus science,” Tyson says. “The issue is ideas that are different versus dogma.”

After 9/11 the agency was given free rein to break the rules but when allowed to play dirty abroad, it's difficult to stop at home

Many American Jewish organizations claim to be staunch supporters of civil and human rights as well as academic freedom. But when it comes to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, they make an exception. In their relentless opposition to BDS, they leave even core principles behind. In Israel this week, sixty young people sign open letter to Netanyahu announcing their resistance to the draft in biggest wave of refusal since 2008.