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Workers say speaking with voters in person is important as they aim to knock on millions of doors for the Democrat.

Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.

Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee.

Fast-food corporations opposed a California minimum wage increase under the guise of concern for workers, claiming it would result in lost jobs. The bill passed, and the numbers are in: that concern was just scaremongering.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.

Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

Unions need to plan a response now.

Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.