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A regular series in which people lay out what it’s actually like to work at some of the country’s most powerful companies.

“I’ve become obsessed,” writes the poet Branden Walsh, “with trying to understand the compulsions and sickness of a society that believes billionaires are a healthy/natural component of civilization.” He tries here to humanize just one.

A federal board would first have to approve a walkout. The catering workers, some of whom earn as little as $8.46 an hour, are asking for higher wage and less costly health insurance.

“The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II,” she tweeted. “It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it. These camps occur throughout history.”

Sanctions, the information war, and the American sabotage

Boston, MA Hundreds of employees of online home goods company call on it to end partnership with government contractor.

I guess I understand why they do it,” she said. “But there is absolutely no help for people who have to go to the doctor because they’re sick.… I’m being charged an incredible amount of money just to live. It somehow doesn’t feel fair.”

Jennie Livingston's 1991 documentary is the story of the queer, working-class, black and brown subculture that then revolved around the fierce and fabulous ballroom competitions in New York City.

Confronting the camps; Assange case; Far right raids the GOP; Naming the far right; Trump cult; Teachers take on white nationalism; Suing neo-Nazis; Knitters take a stand