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NFL tells players patriotism is more important than protest – here’s why that didn’t work during WWI

In 1970, postal workers went on strike and provoked a national crisis for the United States government. Their rebellion holds lessons for labor today.

Soldiers, civilians, and the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income pay the price for our never-ending wars

Net Neutrality: act now!; Google joins the military industrial complex; Robots profiling; Net neutrality – the stakes; Chicago goes 1984; Trump and Twitter in the courts

In a culture that favors stories that revolve around men, women are too frequently treated as disposable asides who exist solely to further a male hero’s narrative arc. They are, literally in this description, things to be given to or taken away from male heroes.