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Labor organizing in California and around the world is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model.

“There’s a litany of things the Trump administration has done that we have to undo,” said Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.), who serves on the House Education and Labor Committee and is a top contender for labor secretary in the Biden administrtation.

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was

"The full data set on which the claim is based has not yet been released and so we don’t know exactly what has been found." Eleanor Riley, University of Edinburgh

"The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP."

Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, newspapers and magazines have been obsessed with constructing a mythology of a “forgotten” white working class. Hillbilly Elegy just reinforces the stereotypes it insists it’s illuminating.

First inventory of the election from hell

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.