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Stowers are expected to keep up a standard of 240-250 tasks an hour. Any downtime, such as time spent drinking water or using the bathroom, is counted against productive time.

Organisers hail UK’s ‘biggest-ever demo’, while Tom Watson leads calls for fresh referendum

The case against American military supremacy

The solution for capitalism’s problems requires transforming the capitalist workplace into democratic institutions where everyone has an equal say on what happens there.

Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.

To help re-elect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump endorsed Israeli sovereignty over Syria’s Golan and tore up UN Security Council Resolution 242, the foundation for every effort towards a just and lasting Middle East peace.

Teacher unions must unite with parents, students and the community to improve our schools—to demand social justice and democracy so that we have strong public schools, healthy communities, and a vibrant democracy.

An amendment that would prohibit the Fed from interfering in state medical pot laws is still up in the air.

The big bad thing she confessed to was… ambivalence. Ambivalence about the early days of motherhood. Sideswiped by the consuming reality of parenting, she admitted that she often wanted to escape; she didn’t want to spend every round-the-clock moment with her new child; she wanted to work!

Two new imaginative state proposals are now seeking to leverage the power of the public purse against executive excess. In California, lawmakers are zeroing in on how government taxes. New legislation pending in Rhode Island targets how government spends.