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Massive pay hikes and continued abuse of overtime pay send cop salaries soaring while other city agencies are starved of funds. NYPD officers are a big step closer to becoming members of the same 1% they work for and protect.

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Noncompete clauses in workers’ contracts, which prevent them from accepting employment with a competitor, have drawn public scrutiny and the FTC is proposing to ban them. But worker advocates say restrictive covenants that constrain the mobility of workers are noncompetes by another name.

As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I say no, a prison sentence will be the result.

It made a kind of perverse and dangerous sense that some settler-homesteaders like my great-grandfather would seek to relocate the source of their legitimacy from where they lived and what they did to who they thought they were, that is, from the land to the blood.

Exclusive: three years after murder, Minnesota congresswoman talks prison abuse and her new police violence resolution

This book argues that the United States must move beyond its current minimalist approach to fighting poverty and adopt a set of policies aimed at the "structural vulnerabilities" in our society that keep people poor.

Bringing back proletarian internationalism one May Day at a time

As streaming content has boomed, the Writers Guild of America says that new media models like Netflix and other online platforms have steadily eroded workers' pay and writers' ability to earn a living in Hollywood. Some 11,500 members are on strike.

65 years ago, the Golden Rule ignited protests that led to a partial ban on nuclear weapons testing. Now it’s back to fight for nothing short of abolition.