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Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

Monosodium glutamate is a compound molecule in which glutamate is the amino acid responsible for the mysterious deepening of flavor. Its once-vilified reputation has been ascribed to illogic, superstition and even racism.

The Israeli forces mowing down unarmed Palestinian protesters also train U.S. police forces that brutalize communities of color.

Deplorably, legalized racial profiling continues today.

What’s the Constitution got to do with climate? Current legal cases are now addressing that question.

One of the most important elements of the Israel lobby in the United States is right-wing Evangelical backing – or Christian Zionism.

The short-term promise of easy cash can trap individuals in bad long-term conditions. This article is the third in a series about how the gig economy is shaping the future of labor and what that means for workers.

Let’s call things by their proper names here. Arpaio is, of course, a white supremacist. But he’s more than that. There’s a word for political regimes that round up members of minority groups and send them to concentration camps, while rejecting the rule of law: What Arpaio brought to Maricopa, and what the president of the United States has just endorsed, was fascism, American style.

To pardon a public official who refuses to obey the law (especially a direct court order) is to give the finger to the judiciary, and thus our constitutional order. It encourages further lawlessness. It unleashes bias, hate, vigilantism, mob rule. And it hits where the rubber meets the street.

The truth shall make you a target; Arpaio’s Buchenwald; Bye bye Big Biz?; Texas turnabout; Black hat backlash; Teen Vogue throws down