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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

Scientists begin going rogue, create alt Twitter account and plan march on D.C.

The women's marches in Washington DC and around the country were stunning, inspiring and the first of a million steps that will be needed to build the resistance to Trump. It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn't help anyone.

In response to President Donald Trump's executive order to advance construction of the stalled Dakota Access Pipeline, tribal opponents say they will fight a restart of the project in court. While President Trump issued an executive order Tuesday intended to advance construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, restarting the stalled project may not be simple.