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Even in Trump country, pro-union sentiment is rising. But can labor and its allies turn that sentiment into power?

Armed with data and outside-the-box ideas, TransitMatters is redefining citizen engagement.

The migrant caravan Trump is so obsessed about is a direct result of US foreign policy.

Shame on all those who have been silent—or, worse, supported the president’s agenda.

During an on-going debate about the future of the VHA, many a patriotic speech has been made about how much everyone in Washington loves and cares for veterans. But even a personal biography brimming with past military heroism can be deceiving.

Tech Giants and ICE; Eco-tage in EU; Suing Trump; Net Neutrality in Cali; A Question of Balance; Scamming the Women's March

It is, after all, about a slice of red-state America at a time of fierce political polarization. In the wake of the 2016 election, traveling to Monrovia—a mostly white town in the vice president’s home state—was hardly an idle or random decision.

In the seventy years since organized labor gave up on shorter hours, not only did the length of the U.S. work week bottom out, then begin a steady climb that still continues, but labor force participation rates also rose. Women work for pay at ever-increasing levels; the elderly work until death. Ever-more hours work are siphoned from households, drawing in ever-more people.

Elsevier is an academic publishing company based in Amsterdam that annually publishes hundreds of thousands of articles to the tune of $2,000,000,000 in revenue. Meanwhile, The European Union has announced that all scientific papers published there and based on publicly funded research will be freely available beginning in 2020.

The 2016 “Reason Rally” features Bill Nye, Margaret Cho, Wu-Tang Clan and others as secular groups borrow playbooks from the LGBTQ movement and the Religious Right.