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In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home.

To win substantive reforms, our system is overdue for structural reforms. 2018 creates an opening.

Texting Trouble; Pai's Problems; EFF's Big Wins; Pentagon Woos the Valley; Bye Bye Standard

By our calculations, in this “war on terror,” the U.S. and its allies have dropped a staggering 291,880 bombs and missiles on other countries—and that is just a minimum number of confirmed strikes.

Despite lots of bad news, workers around the world have been fighting back, and sometimes winning!

In the book, “Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat,” Marion Nestle, emerita professor of nutrition at New York University, discusses how the unstated goal of most company-sponsored studies is to increase the bottom line.

The U.S. aerial bombardment of the city of Raqqa, Syria, similar to its bombardment of Mosul, Iraq, was itself terror in the extreme, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. These are huge war crimes.

As I see it, the challenge ahead is to build progressive infrastructure everywhere we can, but especially in key states that were narrowly won by Trump in 2016 – Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania – and in key states such as North Carolina...

The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.

Two high-ranking police officials have dropped out of a planned training junket in Israel after campaigning from local human rights activists.