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As results from the recent midterm elections show and the book under review chronicles, restrictive voter identification laws, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement and voter purges still deny millions access to the ballot box.

The best antidote to the politics of hate and fear promoted by the White House and The Republican Party is activism around genuine social reform. Labor leaders recap election results below.

Organized labor had a good day at the polls Tuesday in Illinois and across the Midwest.

Firing Jeff Sessions could spark a ‘Wednesday Afternoon Massacre,’ one Democrat on the intelligence committee says

They are poised to win more seats this year than they did in 2006, despite far fewer opportunities.

This new collection of essays by a highly regarded radical intellectual receives a mixed, but engaging review.

A female refugee in a headscarf will make it that much harder for her colleagues to ignore her experience or pretend people like her don’t exist.

Florida's referendum approving the grant of voting rights to 1.4 million returning citizens is the single largest expansion of the franchise since passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

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The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.