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New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

Democrats were ready to throw railworkers to the wolves, letting even Republicans outflank them on labor rights. But thanks to a last-minute legislative push by Bernie Sanders and his allies today, railworkers may be getting the sick leave they’re demanding.

"We need universal rent controls in this country, and we actually need the federal government to champion them."

Was there a conspiracy — even if it only involved a handful of people — at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that was only defeated by sheer luck?

12,000 striking postdoctoral scholars reached a tentative agreement with the University of California to boost their wages and benefits.

A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup

This little book has become an unlikely political best-seller in these unlikely political times.

The neo-Nazis, The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists must be condemned, and defeated, in the press, on the streets, in the classrooms, in the workplaces, and in the halls of government, from the highest levels in the White House to every town hall and union hall across the United States.

It's time to stop relying on markets and multiculturalism, and start engaging in real activism.

When it comes to protecting the speech of people who are most vulnerable to being intimidated into silence — like people of color and gay people — conservatives either are suspiciously quiet or drive further intimidation with wildly negative news coverage.