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Union households swung dramatically for Trump in 2016. He seems to be losing ground with them in 2020.

This new book, by the head of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is a timely warning. "Its tone is set early on, with an epigraph from Heinrich Heine," writes reviewer Larman: “Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

Massive protests rock the world! Nigeria * Chile * Belarus * Iraq * Indonesia * Poland * Thailand * Israel * Costa Rica * Hungary

Among the topics on the union’s agenda at NowThis are pay and fairness, but also near the top of the list are diversity concerns.

Last month 14 military veterans completed the Communications Workers' first-ever Veterans for Social Change Training Institute, where the curriculum included skills useful in electoral campaigning.

A plebiscite called in response to street protests in 2019 sees 78% of people back a new charter to replace one imposed by the military dictatorship of of General Augusto Pinochet.

While Democrats should definitely demand court expansion if they retake the White House and the Senate and hold the House, there is at least one additional step they should take —the impeachment of its most corrupt member, Clarence Thomas.

Trump’s appeal in Miami and Brooklyn, and election reflections from Thomas Frank and Henry Giroux

The true star of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” is Borat’s daughter, played by Maria Bakalova. She’s also the source of its most incisive critique.

Strikes are rare but political strikes are on the agenda more than they have been in many years. Labor Action to Defend Democracy has come together to "plant seeds and stir the pot," and work with community partners to protect the vote.