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The shutdown that ended Friday left an especially painful toll for African-Americans who make up nearly 20 percent of the federal workforce and historically have been on the low end of the government pay scale.

Ultimately, the better advice for workers seeking to avoid “disruption” is to become the agents of disruption themselves.

Keto diet prescribes 80% of calories from fats, the rest from protein, with minimal carbohydrates. This means lots of meat, dairy, butter, eggs, nuts, seeds and oils, and avoiding grains and carb-heavy fruits and vegetables.

What follows is a chronology of both the physical fortification of the U.S.-Mexico boundary and the psychic investment in such a fortification -- the fantasy, chased by both Democrats and Republicans for more than half a century...

But often, in the process of dreaming that constitutes our radicalisms, we retreat into ahistorical and erasing revisionisms as opposed to situating our political visions within some concrete foundation.

We’ll have to contend with new limits to the Clean Water Act, growing threats from climate change and fixing our aging infrastructure.

Speech delivered as a part of Women Cross the DMZ events at the Women's Peace Symposium on May 26, 2015, in Seoul, Korea.

A new front in the battle over retirement security for California’s public employees opened June 4 with the release of the language for a proposed ballot initiative that would virtually outlaw traditional defined-benefit pension plans for future state and municipal workers. The so-called “Voter Empowerment Act of 2016,” would effectively shift all new public employees from the various defined-benefit plans currently in place to 401(k) plans, beginning in 2019.

According to the United Nations Report on Children and Armed Conflict, the number of Palestinian children killed in the occupied territories in 2014 was the third highest of all situations monitored by the UN, following only Afghanistan and Iraq. But in response to diplomatic pressure from the U.S., UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made the last-minute decision to leave Israel off the UN’s annual list of states and groups that gravely violate children’s rights.

In a secret summit meeting at his Venetian Hotel, limited to only right-wing Zionist organizations and individuals that could pledge $1 million dollars, and one media outlet, the Israeli newspaper he owns, Sheldon Adelson and fellow billionaire Haim Saban launched their $50 million effort to derail university campaigns to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel (BDS). Adelson and Saban stressed their goal was to get all pro-Israel actors on campus to work together.