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“For the third-biggest city in the country to have a DSA caucus is amazing, and having members around Carlos will only amplify the causes that working-class Chicago — not the rich — wants,” local DSA co-chair Lucie Macías.

Social Security expansion bill poised to gain traction in Congress, targeting those who earn over $400,000.

A continued “colorblind” approach to tax and economic policies is outmoded and ineffective. Acknowledging the disparate impact tax policies have based on race is paramount to building truly equitable and sustainable tax systems.

"The airline industry is a special case. Airline workers have a lot of leverage because of their role connected with safety," said Lance Compa, a senior lecturer in labor law at Cornell University.

And while a majority of the country has expressed support for giving the presidency to the person who wins the most votes — 55 percent in the latest Pew Research Center poll — there are sharp partisan divides.

Massachusetts poet Anne Champion raises a protest against the sale of guns and weapons of mass destruction.

What Ivanka Trump doesn’t know about social mobility.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has demonstrated to the world that Kashmir is potentially the most dangerous place on earth

It seems likely that Allen Weisselberg knows more than any other person about the specifics of how Donald Trump has made his money

From potential involvement in a grand Russia conspiracy to pilfering money from his own charitable foundation, here’s an incomplete list of the criminal activity Trump’s former personal attorney dropped at the feet of the president