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A pair of education funding bills in Hawaii that would bump up salaries for veteran teachers and continue salary boosts for hard-to-staff positions cleared key state Senate committees recently. This is a step-in the right direction.

Political participation is key to resisting efforts to prohibit the discussion of “controversial” ideas. Those flexing their political muscle to regulate what gets taught in classrooms understand this. Those of us doing the teaching need to as well.

These seed savers are preserving and celebrating the enormous genetic diversity of collard greens. That enslaved Africans brought collard greens to the United States gives the project even more pathos.

Teamster-affiliated Uber drivers in Seattle have won raises & benefits through city legislation. Now the union & employers are backing a bill that would take some benefits statewide—but would preempt Seattle from regulating the companies.

She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.

"I discover a cultural, political and economic legacy that was radically different from the reality I had grown up in: a legacy that had workers and farmers at its core ... as agents in the development of a new society, economy and culture"

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Forget bonkers accusations about Italy using lasers to manipulate American vote totals. Expect white-shoe lawyers with Federalist Society bona fides to argue about application of the “independent state legislature” doctrine.

A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say

Unvaccinated people make up the vast majority of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.