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Failure to Protect?

Charles Piller Science
A study of asthmatic children, most of them Black, shows how a common clinical trial design can expose vulnerable participants to serious risks

Not a Nation of Immigrants

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Monthly Review
The thrust of American struggles has been to deracialize but not to decolonize. A deracialized America still remains a settler society and a settler state.

Court Rules FedEx Employees Are FedEx Employees – Why This Matters

Dave Johnson Campaign for America's Future
A U.S. Appeals Court has ruled FedEx’s employees in California, Oregon, and other states with similar employee-protection laws, are FedEx’s employees, "employees as a matter of law.” The Court ruling is similar to the recent National Labor Relations Board ruling against McDonald's for similar practices, designed to circumvent labor standards by pretending their employees are independent "contractors" or employees of "franchises" or labor "contracting companies."

The Wage Gap

John Oliver explores America's wage gap between men and women and proposes a possible (100% sarcastic) solution