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Organized labor had a good day at the polls Tuesday in Illinois and across the Midwest.

Firing Jeff Sessions could spark a ‘Wednesday Afternoon Massacre,’ one Democrat on the intelligence committee says

They are poised to win more seats this year than they did in 2006, despite far fewer opportunities.

This new collection of essays by a highly regarded radical intellectual receives a mixed, but engaging review.

A female refugee in a headscarf will make it that much harder for her colleagues to ignore her experience or pretend people like her don’t exist.

Florida's referendum approving the grant of voting rights to 1.4 million returning citizens is the single largest expansion of the franchise since passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

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Turkey’s major trade unions called for a one-day strike on 29 December to protest the government-led military operations against the Kurds. Union representatives declared that they would persist in struggle against those who are trying to destroy the hope of both peoples [Turks and Kurds] to live together and build a common future.

A recently released secret U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) file can be justifiably termed “Stranger than Strangelove”, the 1964 film that satirically captured the madness of the Cold War. It reveals for the first time the scale of the holocaust that would have been unleashed in a nuclear war. The U.S. planned to attack more than 1,200 “Soviet bloc” cities, killing an estimated 520 million people. Even “friendly forces and people” would be radiated.

In one of the largest U.S. natural gas leaks ever recorded, Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon plant outside of Los Angeles is leaking harmful methane gas at a rate of 110,000 pounds per hour, and according to the company, it may take more than three months to plug it. The single leak, which has been called the worst environmental disaster since the BP oil spill in 2010, accounts for a quarter of the California's entire methane emissions.