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U.S. Adults See Decline of Union Membership As Bad

Ted Van Green Pew Research Center
Majorities of Americans continue to see the long-term decline in the share of workers represented by unions as a bad thing for both the country and working people in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from March 27 to April 2.

Everyone in a Nursing Home Deserves a Single Room

Margaret Morganroth Gullette The Boston Globe
The government should require that owners give residents private space — or it should take over the facilities and replace them with small homes.

Israeli Raid on Seven Human Rights Groups Is Attack on Palestinian Civil Society

Marjorie Cohn Truthout
Most of the Palestinian human rights groups that were ransacked on August 18 have been in Israel’s crosshairs since last October, when Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz baselessly declared that Israel had designated six of those groups under its 2016 Counter Terrorism Law as “terrorist organizations”

Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism

Rida Vaquas Prometheus
Karl Kautsky was once the world's leading Marxist theoretician, but his reputation dimmed after World War I. On the occasion of the publication of a newly translated volume of his writings, reviewer Vaquas offers a reassessment.