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Eugene Scalia has spent his career as a corporate lawyer fighting for the interests of capital, not workers. Now he's in line to run the Labor Department,

The proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on July 12th, would enable federal workers to drop union membership—and opt out of paying membership dues—at any point after their first year of membership.

Throughout American history, attacks on so-called radicals have fit hand-in-glove with racist and anti-immigrant politics.

Joe Biden keeps lying about Medicare for All and won’t stop anytime soon — he has to, to sell his own Bidencare plan. But Medicare for All will always win on the merits.

Garner scratched-out a living in the gray market. "Not today," he said, when cops came for him. Now he's dead

About one-half of all higher education teachers and professors are contingent, or adjunct, laborers. This book portrays this crisis, and even though it is a flawed treatment, reviewer Roth finds some things of interest in this study.

Puerto Rico * Algeria * Japan * Italy * Ecuador * Nicaragua * Malaysia * Spain

The highest-ranking countries in the World Happiness Report are those that have “strong social welfare systems and an emphasis on equality.”

Tuesday night’s elections saw the largest socialist electoral victory in modern American history

Consolidation has meant more patients and fewer nurses to treat them. Medical staff are expected to do more than ever and to do it quicker.