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Inside stores, shortages are evident. Meat and produce are rapidly disappearing from shelves, and aren’t being replaced because truck drivers in the Teamsters union are refusing to cross the picket line.

My heart goes out to all my French friends at this cultural catastrophe. It is a great shame, however, that the loss is being commemorated in some quarters in a nativist way. The significance of Notre Dame is universal, not racial.

The overall number of recorded hate crimes against all groups has grown in recent years, but Muslims have been disproportionately targeted...

The striking Stop & Shop workers have received solidarity from faith groups, other unions and local lawmakers.

Emerging transnational unionism, if it perseveres, contains the seeds of a new global movement, a new international that extends beyond labor to embrace all forces working toward a Great Transition.

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class Americans.

Net Neutrality victory; Assange bust and free speech; Front page smear; Means TV; RIP Johnson Publishing; Must-have app; GPS surveillance of school kids

Facing an ailing economy, leftwing populists from Huey Long to Paul Wellstone primarily blame Wall Street, big business and the politicians whom they fund. Rightwing populists from George Wallace to Pat Buchanan also blame Wall Street, but put equal if not greater blame on the poor, the unemployed, the immigrant, and the minorities, who, like the coupon-clipper on Wall Street, are seen as economic parasites.

Among the remarkable features of Judge Treu's ruling is the absence of any understanding of how to provide better teachers to students more consistently, or even how to measure quality. He seems to think it's a simple matter of pointing at "bad" teachers and running them out the door.

To separate the facts from the media hype, we talked to Dr. Jeffrey Swanson, a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine, and one of the leading researchers on mental health and violence.