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Strikes have become a much weaker tool for unions, while management continues to lock out workers as a way to call the shots at the bargaining table.

This report is from September, 2017 concerning sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy in Australia. Its conclusions are relevant to the recent report on abuse by over 300 priests and the abuse and coverup by the bishops in Pennsylvania.

The fact that even the Mercatus Center couldn't make universal Medicare look bad is a very good sign. Fact checkers need to get a grip.

In Western Massachusetts, the Pioneer Valley Workers Center has created a rapid-response network it calls “Sanctuary in the Streets” (SiS). The worker center, founded in 2014, organizes restaurant workers and farmworkers in the area.

Missing News; Single Payer Snuff Job; They're Watching What the Kids are Writing; Silicon Valley Frankenstein; King Shaun

BlacKkKlansman is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare, and also a symphony, the rare piece of political popular art that works in all three dimensions.

Court-packing! Puerto Rican statehood! Votes for felons! Why—and how—the next Democratic majority should play dirty.

This new volume surveys the changes in U.S. foreign policy as successive governments have downplayed diplomacy. The book is based on first-hand reporting by a prize-winning journalist of conversations with diplomats and others.

“We know that ICE’s actions are inhumane, almost incomprehensible."

The pitfalls of patriotism are everywhere, and at some point those hazards must be honestly faced.