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Here is a book that many will find helpful in trying to understand, and explain, the various ways that bias works in contemporary society.

Puerto Rico * Greece * France * Feminists on the Frontlines * Israel * Liberia * China

The institutions responsible for harming people operate across borders far more than most people realize, yet many groups are joining forces to gain strength.

Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, exploited the island's post-hurricane crisis to close hundreds of schools and privatize the education system. Now, thanks to a massive corruption scandal, she may be going to jail.

While these comments surely further fueled the vicious, racist right-wing attacks against AOC and her colleagues in “The Squad,” it would be a mistake to reduce them to their racism. For they also articulated a broader reactionary agenda.

Indeed, power is not vested in them (all powerful men) but in the individuals and institutions all around them. This makes it essential to look past individual perpetrators to the systems that allow them to commit crimes with impunity.

Amazon has to do more than pay a $15 minimum wage to keep workers happy.

The Chicago Defender; Facial Recognition; Left in the Info Age; Cancel Amazon Prime; Rightists Cry Bias; Detroit Cops and Social Media; Disappearing Local Papers; Too Left for the MSM

Newly restored, Elaine May’s darkest comedy is one of the great underappreciated American movies of the 1970s.

How might collective bargaining change if health care wasn't tethered to work? Democratic presidential candidates aren’t in agreement over how to solve the current health care crisis, where 1 in 2 sick Americans cannot afford health care.