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Tim Walz is seen as a champion for workers. But how have they actually done under his leadership? Pretty well.

A compassionate documentary told with elegiac brushstrokes, Daughters tracks the generational trauma of incarcerated fathers.

If Democrats survive the onslaught that’s coming and emerge victorious at the federal level, the first order of business next year must be to strip the cancer of dark money out of our body politic...

Harris/Walz need grassroots organizing and election protection to win the White House. Whether you like it or not, democracy means you ARE involved, now more than ever. So prepare to be intensely active at least through January 20, 2025.

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to do something about it. We started our own.

Farmers are risking their lives to fight back against the US-owned factory farms that are destroying Mexico’s water.

A Stone Rainbow (1909), Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1969), A ‘Great Assembly of the Fearless and Free’ (1819), Music’s New Language (1959), Whites’-Only Athletics Is a Big Loser (1964), Fan the Flames of Discontent (1909), How It All Began (1619)

When they started strategically resisting the bosses’ divisive tactics, meeting racism with solidarity, San Francisco longshoremen went “from wharf rats to the lords of the docks.”

The progressive Minnesota congresswoman said her Democratic challenger is "actively courting Republican votes and desperately seeking funding from AIPAC."

The National Labor Relations Board has taken a more forceful pro-labor stance as strikes and organizing efforts ramped up. Potential new leadership and a series of court decisions threaten those efforts.