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The foreclosure crisis is alive and well, aided and abetted by house flipping. A legal loophole allows flippers in areas where the house market has rebounded to push troubled homeowners out of their houses.

Google, Facebook, Amazon and Snapchat, along with an array of other websites and apps taking part in the “day of action,” believe a firehose of internet users can convince President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission to abandon its plan to gut the rules. The tactic mirrors the web "blackout" deployed in early 2012 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, which lawmakers dropped after receiving a flood of phone calls and emails.

The Oliver Tambo Resolution — named after the prominent anti-apartheid figure who served as president of the ANC between 1967 and 1991 — states that the aim of downgrading South Africa’s embassy to Israel was to “send a strong message about Israel’s continued illegal occupation of Palestine and the continued human rights abuses against the peoples of Palestine.”

Former NJ Charter teacher Rann Miller explains why high turnover helps strengthen the charter agenda.

ISIS wants civilian deaths caused by the U.S. and its partners. We should not give that to them.

Il Douche does Poland; Cops get political; Hoosier daddy; Southern Baptists go batsh*t; Here’s Chapo

The removal of a single toxic CEO, like the condemning of a single home in the wake of a chemical leak, won’t make the region livable.

The French comic series Valérian and Laureline, newly adapted into a summer blockbuster, gave the genre one of its first protagonists to powerfully own her womanhood.

A newly-mobilized working class could reshape the nation’s economic and political landscape. Women are the core of today's working-class, and that’s why women’s leadership – – especially among women of color — will be critical for that new working-class movement tp take shape.