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Sure, their characters are privileged, but they’re also dealing with unsteady marriages, ambition, and family.

With unionization taking off at Starbucks, the company is quietly admitting that it’s in a bind: unionization threatens its low-wage model, but union busting hurts its public image as a supposedly progressive company.

"Brazil will have the opportunity to decide which country it will be for the next few years, and for generations to come," said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "The Brazil of democracy or authoritarianism?"

If a half-century of progress toward a more equal society, painstakingly achieved across many fronts by many actors, can be so easily jettisoned with the wave of a few judicial hands, the problem to worry about isn’t the court’s. It’s democracy’s. It’s ours.

Amazon, Starbucks—and the National Guard? Politicized mission and bad conditions push soldiers to join the Texas State Employees Union Share via Twitter

From the moment Roe was decided anti-abortion forces have been pushing for this outcome. But the effort has gained significant momentum since 2016. It required accumulating and exercising power at the federal and state levels.

"No government," said Senator Bernie Sanders, "should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters."

Donating to local abortion funds, using inclusive language, and educating yourself are great places to start

The Left and its allies must defeat the rats in the battle to preserve democracy and human rights.  Separately, we must prevent the Mouse and other corporate vermin from fattening themselves on the public’s cheese.

The so-called Zeitenwende is Germany’s biggest rearmament since World War II and makes its military budget the third largest in the world.