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Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government’s labor relations policies inevitably ripple across the economy.

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“They’re after nothing more than the entire public sphere,” Chris Dols of the Federal Unionists Network told the Foley Square crowd. He urged other public-sector unions to join the fight and “make it unmanageable."

Since Donald Trump’s election, his opposition party hasn’t acted much like one. The same cannot be said of Bernie Sanders, who hit the road this weekend in red states in an effort to stoke pushback to Trump’s slash-and-burn plutocratic governance.

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

Answers to key questions.

"We expect every Republican who voted for the budget resolution to hold a town hall during recess on what parts of Medicaid and SNAP they want to cut," said the national director of the Working Families Party.

Reviewer Simmons-Thorne this book aims to show "how de Beauvoir and black feminists conceive women’s oppression disparately and to criticize how de Beauvoir’s conception marginalizes Black women and other women of color in feminist thought."

As the Trump administration targets trans youth, healthcare workers are mobilizing to support their patients’ ability to get the care they need.

Brave new world order?