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Labor organizing in California and around the world is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model.

“There’s a litany of things the Trump administration has done that we have to undo,” said Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.), who serves on the House Education and Labor Committee and is a top contender for labor secretary in the Biden administrtation.

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was

"The full data set on which the claim is based has not yet been released and so we don’t know exactly what has been found." Eleanor Riley, University of Edinburgh

"The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP."

Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, newspapers and magazines have been obsessed with constructing a mythology of a “forgotten” white working class. Hillbilly Elegy just reinforces the stereotypes it insists it’s illuminating.

First inventory of the election from hell

Labor is going into a new decade weaker than it’s been in nearly a century. But the year was a promising one for those looking for sparks from the US working class — and hoping the new decade can stoke those sparks into a flame.

While the political situation often seems bleak and hopeless, these Palestinians, these changemakers, continue to try to make a difference, no matter how big or small, in the hopes that they can do better for their community.

The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again.