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Activism brought changes in gay rights, marijuana laws, but guns, immigration, inequality and more stay unchanged. America’s ability to repair and renew itself rests, as ever, on the democratic spirit that burns within its citizenry.

Across the country, for the past several months, workers have been walking out of McDonalds, K.F.C.s and other fast-food companies, calling for a fifteen-dollar hourly wage. Fast-food companies say that this is unrealistic. Raise the hourly wage to fifteen dollars per hour, they argue, and local franchises, many of them operating with small profit margins, will either fail or have to lay off employees.

The rampant capitalism that has brought the market into every corner of society needs to be reined in

"Hopefully, it is not also trying to hide or obscure a distressing system or set of facts.”

“This is an irresponsible bill and those who support it are irresponsible” .

UPS’s long-established practice of inadequately staffing their operations seems to have finally caught up with them.

Most damning is that in each and every case, with the possible exception of Detroit and Tampa Bay, the team would be better served by just firing the owners and keeping the head coaches who were sent packing.

In short, from Washington’s point of view, Erdogan has gone off the reservation.