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“There is a road that runs through our humanity,” Raphael Warnock says, “that is larger than politics, bigger than partisan bickering, certainly bigger than race, bigger than geographical differences … Our job is to build out that road!”

“They are, quite simply, the Dream Team.”

Long COVID-19 and other chronic respiratory conditions after viral infections may stem from an overactive immune response in the lungs

A bill - BA 257 - aimed to create a fast food sector council to set minimum industry standards on wages, working hours, health and safety and other working conditions - is expected to come before the senate appropriations committee on August 11.

“I want to say their names,” says California poet Patrick Daly about children killed in the classroom, not as balm, but to stress our “obstinate coming back…the relentless heart.”

They spent nearly $5 million to target and defeat Levin, far more than was spent by any other group. Something is profoundly wrong in our political system when a handful of billionaires, spend millions of dollars, to defeat progressive candidates.

On TV news, a jingoistic discourse is already developing over the Taiwan crisis — and not just on the right. The result could be another disastrous great-power conflict, this time with China.

August 6 and 9 - 77 years since the first atomic bombs were dropped on human beings - by our government. The upgrading of nuclear weapons by nine countries and morbid fantasy of a military solution to the Russian-Ukraine conflict risk life on Earth.

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A number of veteran organizers and labor journalists are publishing books this year that will be of interest to Labor Notes readers. Many of them participated in a "Meet the Author" session at the recent Labor Notes Conference.