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Why the Writers Guild of America is moving closer to a strike

If you really want to understand how Moscow sees U.S. intelligence, turn off the congressional hearings and start watching “Adaptation.”

“Mostly what I see here is the same corporate wish list and a set of international rules that work quite well for global corporations,” said Celeste Drake, the AFL-CIO’s trade policy specialist.

America's mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too--and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.

Advance Auto Parts distribution workers in Lehigh County, Pa. will vote to unionize.

Single-payer health care has always been a goal of the Left. But Democrats have turned it into a punching bag.

'The momentum is building,' says one Democratic lawmaker

On March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started aerial attacks on Yemen, transforming a civil war into an international conflict and a humanitarian disaster. Even as the Trump Administration moves to increase the US role in the fighting, no end to the war is in sight. There are now some 40,000 human casualties, including more than 2,500 children and 1,900 women killed directly by the air strikes. And a child dies every ten minutes from disease or hunger.

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