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GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize.

We don’t survey how workers feel about their jobs. We’d learn a lot if we did.

This new crisis comes as workers across the UK are preparing for a new wave of strikes against the rising cost of living.

A new EPI report has the receipts on our overcompensated corporate titans.

If the conservative court upholds attempted violations of the Voting Rights Act, the US can drop pretenses to justice.

Gird up your loins for Early Voting Blues

"It was from a humanizing perspective and was not one of objectifying or exploitation," said Chinonye Chukwu in an interview regarding ‘Till’

The results were overwhelming. With 100 of the 103 precincts where the issue was on the ballot reporting, 87 percent of voters were backing the $15-an-hour wage. Just 13 percent voted against the advisory referendum. That huge level of support will strengthen the hand of activists who are encouraging the city council to consider a major wage hike.

This new Cold War is not about communism taking over the world. It is more about returning to 19th century balance of power interests, borrowing the phrase John Kerry has used against Putin. It is about dividing up the spoils of the first Cold War among the triumphal capitalist democracies, as if Russia is defeated and short-lived. Pushing Western capitalism and NATO towards Russia was sure to touch off the current escalation, and worse may come.

The banning of Students for Justice in Palestine at Northeastern University, replicates sanctions being imposed against numerous student Palestinian rights groups across the country. Israel's heavy-handed reaction to these campus organizations is symptomatic of its increasing isolation and concern about waning American support and have alienated traditional supporters of Israel, including many young American Jews.