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Massachusetts laws prohibit strikes and “inducing or condoning strikes.”

Chile’s worst unrest in decades has transformed into a nationwide uprising for change. Here seven protesters explain what they’re fighting for.

The question at the heart of public banking may seem technical but is actually about political power. Public banking shifts power away from profit-motivated board members of corporate banks and into the hands of the people.

While the establishment of the transitional government in Sudan has eased prevailing tensions, the military’s share of power within it has diminished the possibility of achieving the goals of the revolution.

Last month’s J Street Conference featured some mea culpas from high ranking former Obama Administration officials over their failure to protect Palestinian rights when they were in a position to do so. They were self-serving, but also important.

The recent California electricity shutoffs are the handiwork of private utilities, artifacts of their refusal to spend money on their infrastructure rather than shareholder dividends. The time may have come for public ownership of the utilities.

If members run the local... what exactly is the union rep's job? We asked four experienced staffers how they approach their day-to-day tasks while keeping the rank and file in the driver’s seat.

Not only do patents push higher prices onto consumers, they burden the research world with the increased costs of paying for the intellectual property needed to do further research . . . If anything, the neoliberal approach to academic research is a return to the privately funded, pre-tenure origins of the university system when numerous schools were simply research labs and promotional arms for private industry

The vision of the 2002 movie “Minority Report,” based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, of “pre-crime” squads identifying people likely to commit crimes is getting less fantastic all the time.

In a remarkable job of reporting, Lyndsey Layton of the Washington Post describes the creation of the Common Core standards. Two men–Gene Wilhoit and David Coleman–went to see Bill Gates in 2008 to ask him to underwrite national standards. He agreed, and within two years, the standards were written and adopted by almost every state in the nation. -- Diane Ravitch