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Strategies that challenge or wield state power may be in tension, but many movements use both simultaneously to transform society.

Rents are too high. Joe Biden should issue an executive order to lower them

The news network said the journalist's killing was part of a "wider attack on Al Jazeera, and journalists in Palestine."

Railroads are prioritizing payments to Wall Street stockholders over everything else, including serving the public interest.

If the unionization vote passes, it’ll be a landmark win for more than one reason: It would create the largest video game industry union in the United States, and the first official U.S. union under Microsoft.

Uncontrolled education, trans rights, cleaning up corruption — and other woke agenda items

Director Elegance Bratton tells Jezebel how he, like his film's protagonist, survived homophobia, homelessness, and the military.

The Republican rising star struggled for two days to get clarity with regard to his appearance at a "white pride" - Ku Klux Klan event in 2002. Initially, his office tried to keep things vague, suggesting it was "likely" Scalise attended. He was a veteran state legislator then, elected from the same precincts where David Duke once ran strong. When it became clear he was not just present but a presenter, Scalise started spinning scenarios that might explain it all away.

Kenworthy thinks that capitalism working at its best—an Americanized version of the Nordic model—would be worth fighting for. I agree.

When unions serve the interests of the few, they lose their way and their ability to be forward-looking. But one of the better-kept secrets is that invariably, they also quietly become alienated from their own members. Inevitably, if the leadership of the PBA continues to ignore and fail on this challenge, new leadership will be destined to take it up.