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Excerpt from Flint Taylor's new book "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago"

The California Institution for Men is an important reminder that the U.S. practiced in the past what prison reformers admire as humanistic punishment elsewhere.

A public memorial is a reminder that the present is traceable to a past when people tortured by law enforcement in this country fought to make their experiences known and part of official history—and won.

Starring Cate Blanchett, Aduba is among the 11 new cast members to the series. Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly.

Mercy says nurses returned Thursday, local UAW says informational meetings now are Friday and Saturday

Talks are not even taking place in the same city, since there are at least two sets of discussions ongoing.

Those losses are the result of highly sophisticated and intense anti-union campaigns by employers, business groups, and politicians. They are also the result of the unsophisticated, shallow organizing approach of the UAW.

Exploitation is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. Our economic system is beyond salvage.

Now they face foreclosure. Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed.

Those losses are the result of highly sophisticated and intense anti-union campaigns by employers, business groups, and politicians. They are also the result of the unsophisticated, shallow organizing approach of the UAW.