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Seattle poet Jed Myers writes about "a man/who’d left his house in rubble, crossed a plain and then a sea, gone north without a plan,/now faced a razor wire fence..." It's a story of upheaval, a refugee, a stalemate, all too familiar this sad saga.

The proposed pipeline route crosses ancestral lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Missouri River. The Missouri River is a major source of water for the Tribe. The ancestral lands and water are sacred to the Tribe and its people, and they possess a responsibility to Mother Earth and to future generations to protect these ancestral lands and water.

While the Vision for Black Lives inspired activists in the US and around the world, the statement was immediately met with a slew of criticism from Zionist organizations and publications.

On every level of engagement and critique, Teju Cole's “Known and Strange Things” is an essential and scintillating journey.

The 1.4 million International Brotherhood of Teamsters has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. This was a blow to Donald Trump who had campaigned for their endorsement.

The Frankfurt School produced some of the most noted Marxist intellectuals of the last century. Reviewer Robert Minto says this new group portrait offers an accessible entryway into the minds of these thinkers, whose work and ideas have often been labeled unnecessarily difficult and obscure.

Single mothers should not be blamed for young people's responses to a city that ignores or criminalizes them. Many of Milwaukee’s Black families have never experienced calm. They have not experienced a city that centers their needs and voices. Black youth fed up with their treatment are not creeps. Should they face unemployment, underemployment, police brutality, and racism—and face it without complaint?

After achieving Hollywood success through absurd comic genius, Gene Wilder did what no one does. He quit making movies.

A new report links the drop in union membership with the rise in income inequality. But labor activists are finding new ways to help workers.

"Today's announcement is just one more convoluted mechanism to avoid plain talk [and] admit to price gouging," Public Citizen said.