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The future of work means fewer hours spent working.

It’s not that complicated. GM has been highly profitable, and workers haven’t forgotten the sacrifices they made to prop up the company.

Two trains are running in opposite directions. One is racing toward a nuclear weapons-free world. The other is spending unimaginable fortunes to upgrade their omnicidal nuclear arsenals and making "mad man" threats to use them.

Timothy Faust’s new book is part history, part manifesto, and part irreverent tour guide to America’s deeply flawed health insurance system.

He neither expected nor asked much of his adopted country—basically just the chance to earn a paycheck and be free from government and employer intimidation.

Tarantino succeeds in superimposing two meta-narratives: the end of the Western and the self-destruction of the counterculture. Both stories are symptomatic of the war in Vietnam, though here Vietnam is little more than background.

How elections are stolen; Austin turns the tables on abortion funding; Arnautoff Murals; Progressive prosecutors; Ecofascism; Brutality at the camps; Sotomayor sounds the alarm

Last night, President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address. Working people were quick to point out that most of us don't live in the reality described in the president's speech and when it comes to the issues we care about, actions speak louder than words.

Trump never mentioned the Russia probe—but he clearly signaled his intentions.

The rise of the coded gaze has implications that go beyond the details of any one app.