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The social cohesion for a general strike supporting federal workers is part of America’s past, how about now?

Meat grown in vats, grown from the cells of animals, may be the next course on the menu.

A teacher walkout would cast the strike as a challenge to the creeping absorption of public schools by charter management organizations.

Just as we are witnessing a rising movement for a visionary Green New Deal, so, too, the time has come for a New Peace Deal that repudiates endless war and the threat of nuclear war...

Israeli Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, announced a series of escalatory measures that could be described as a declaration of war against prisoners.

We saw an outpouring of generosity for the people most hurt by our oppressive immigration policy.

The New York of Bernie Sanders's childhood was full of Yiddish socialists. Often, these were Jews of Sanders's sort, their spiritual practice less fixated on giving glory to God on high than fighting for emancipation here on earth. Although that interpretation of Judaism may seem profane, even blasphemous, at first blush, it has a firm basis in scripture.

“Which is worse: a poor, uneducated young man who sells drugs because he sees no other opportunity, or a multimillionaire executive, at the pinnacle of his power, who decides to subject his workers to a daily game of Russian roulette? ...

Natalie Moore tells the history of how racial segregation came about in Chicago and considers a variety of ways through which it might be reversed.

Even if discussions of police brutality typically revolve around shootings of unarmed individuals, the fact is cops don't have to physically harm or even arrest people to do lasting damage.