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Republicans defend cuts to food stamps by saying that keeping people hungry will make them work harder. But we know this is just about cruelty

In cities where people are desperate for housing, why are there still empty properties?

Terrence Malick's latest film explores whether a single civilian’s quiet act of resistance can have any tangible impact during times of systemic evil.

White Nationalism + Prizefighters + Trump's Antisemitism Swindle + Recycling + Food Stamps + Jersey City Murder + #WouldYouShootMeToo + Scott Free

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest women ever elected to Congress, did not come to play by the old rules – and she has pushed the party to the left

A National Labor Relations Board decision gives McDonald’s a major victory over the threat that it might share a duty to franchise employees, or that workers might have an easier path to unionization.

"We'd be in much better shape if Trump and company were merely heartless misers. What they really are is much, much worse."

The bill would strengthen workers’ right to organize into unions, bargain collectively, and conduct strikes.

The plan to merge the current 42 pension plans into a universal points system is overwhelmingly rejected by the unions, and the ‘pivot age’ is still a fantasy, unacceptable to unions like the CGT and Force Ouvriere.

Read the Editor's Intro to our latest print issue of the NACLA Report, Radical Cities, focused on municipalism, housing movements, and local radical democracy in Latin America, from Mexico City to Montevideo.