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The French president has proposed a controversial higher education reform at a particularly inopportune moment, sparking major protests.

The government’s proposed railway reforms will force yet more traffic onto the country’s overcrowded roads, even as people in the provinces and regions lose mobility, convenience, and time.

Capitalism treats blue-collar and white-collar wage earners differently than salary earners. Since the 1980s, anybody who has a non-bullshit job, who is doing actual work, has seen their work downsized, sped up and Taylorized.

I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost. But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff.

“A land without a people for a people without a land.” As seductive as that slogan was, it was willfully false, as amply documented in personal testimonies of Palestinians and Israelis, historical records, and scholarly research.

White people keep calling the cops on black people for no reason. That’s dangerous. Calling 911 means different things to white and black people.

In September 2017, artist and scholar Yevgeniy Fiks visited the Jewish Autonomous Region to see what it is, instead of what it was expected to have been. He shared two essays with us, “Before Birobidzhan” and “Diocese of Birobidzhan”, originally published on his website http://yevgeniyfiks.com.

The Israeli government and its lobby, and its neoconservative US allies, convinced Donald Trump to sabotage the Iran deal. The forces that pushed for the Iraq war 16 years ago are sowing destruction again. The broken Iran treaty leaves no doubt; you cannot resist Trump without resisting Israel.

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