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Americans Deserve Safer Jobs

Matt Sedlar Center for Economic and Policy Research
There are thousands of accidents across the United States every year that could be prevented by stronger safety and health regulations and enforcement.

Did Not Know It Was Possible For a Show to Be This Stupid

Jack Mirkinson Splinter News
It is worth noting the existence of this thing as a cultural symbol of the way in which Venezuela—which, whatever your thoughts on it, is not, like, al-Qaeda—is becoming the new Russia.

America’s Mixed Messages This Time at Sea

Karen J. Greenberg TomDispatch
In the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the very image and essence of hardship and harm in ways that violate the most basic tenets of democracy and justice.

First Step Act Has Sinister Implications for the Poor and Marginalized

Candice Bernd Truthout
The modest sentence reductions in the bill are so narrow that veteran reform advocates say the long-term, harmful provisions of the legislation — including its reliance on racist risk assessment mechanisms and expansion of electronic monitoring...