Willy Street Co-Op Workers Vote to Unionize
Isthmus
It’s one of the 20 largest workforces to unionize in the country this year.
“Sitting Around Singing Kumbaya”
Poetry Northwest
"Come by here": Listen as the Maine-based poet Arielle Greenberg takes you to the radical roots , the heritage and legacy of the oft-maligned song, Kumbaya.
The Human Cost of a Cheap Manicure
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue runs an op-ed column, No Class, dedicated to worker struggles and the American labor movement. This week's column focuses on the troubling working conditions at nail salons and the organizing efforts to change them.
When Wages Stagnate, Lifespans Fall. Inequality Kills.
Inequality.org
Two new official reports out of Washington trace our growing economic divide and the high price we pay, in dollars and lives, for letting that divide fester.
More Candidates, Less Democracy? Ranked Choice Voting Avoids the False Choice.
Real Clear Politics
Voting systems matter. Ours needs reform. When races attract many candidates ranked choice voting can provide a truer expression of voters' preferences than the current system. And it's actually being adopted.
Trump Signs Executive Order Giving Him Control of Weather
The New Yorker
A beaming Trump pronounced “total victory” over the weather, which he called “the enemy of the people.”
How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land
Over the course of the 20th century, black Americans have lost approximately 12 million acres of land. This mass land dispossession—a war waged by deed of title, which has affected 98 percent of black farmers—can only be called theft, says Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk II in a new documentary.
Filibuster
John Oliver explains why filibusters exist, why they shouldn't, and why it's stupid to drink coffee like a cat.
Beto O'Rourke: 'We're going to take away your AR-15'
The El Paso, Texas, native proposed his plan to take back semiautomatic weapons at the Democratic debate
Musicians Love Making Fun of Bob Dylan
What would it sound like if Paul Simon or John Lennon parodied Bob Dylan? Of course it happened, and here's what it sounds like.
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