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The media and the Democratic Party establishment’s singular focus on paid sick leave leaves out millions of contract and informal workers. We need to think much bigger — now.

Unions want to see employees supported directly instead of funds for airline companies.

Forget politics or money. Racism explains why the country lacks the safety net its citizens deserve.

"Having a healthcare system that's a public strategic asset rather than a business run for profit allows for a degree of coordination and optimal use of resources."

Jack Welch, who died this month at the age of 84, changed the trajectory of American capitalism, however the obituaries left out or downplayed Welch’s greatest impact in shaping the unequal and unfair America of today: unionbusting.

New social divisions, new atrocities, new challenges for humanity

The 1938 Oscar-winning “That Mothers Might Live,” about the groundbreaking work a 19th century hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, explains how this man of science saved millions of lives, through the simple suggestion: wash your hands!

I came to the opening ceremonies with a delegation of other Palestinian lawyers and activists who wanted to go together to witness, learn from and make connections with our own history of violence, dispossession and erasure. Our Palestinian delegation in Montgomery left with renewed hope that we too

Orange Crush—or the tact team, as they’re called officially—is the Illinois Department of Correction’s (IDOC) most oppressive armed wing.

If elections are wealthy interests versus voters, the counter to the power of Big Money is to increase voters’ financial power.