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How can we solve the housing crisis? Simple: have the government build more housing.

In the run-up to SEIU’s largest and most disastrous local union take-over—involving United Healthcare Workers (UHW)—some of the first punches where thrown at a Labor Notes conference in Dearborn, Michigan ten years ago this month.

In a job with tons of power and practically no oversight from voters, law enforcement or politicians, corruption can be easy to get away with.

Championed by the Communist Party’s youth wing, the Komsomol, official discos transformed drab party auditoriums into festivals of transgression.

The Kansas poet H. C. Palmer, a battalion surgeon in the American War in Vietnam, addresses the effects of trauma on our war veterans.

Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.

The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem urges soldiers to refuse to shoot protestors in Gaza

Oklahoma was once a center of left-populism. Could it be that again?

The Tohono O’odham tribe has repeatedly cited a border wall’s potential impact upon sacred sites, burial grounds, and the natural environment. A wall would split the tribal homeland down the middle and isolate thousands of members south of the border.