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Hurricanes have done it before, decimating critical shares of an already limited housing stock for financially vulnerable people. Hurricanes Harvey and Florence are the latest to damage public housing and displace its poor residents.

The tentative agreement also does nothing substantial to address drivers’ other big concerns: excessive forced overtime, technological surveillance, and harassment by supervisors.

'An insult to all working people in Boston;' union lambasts Yankees for crossing Marriott hotel workers' picketing line

Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who shot Laquan McDonald sixteen times, has been found guilty of murder. It's a major victory for Chicago activists and the broader movement against police brutality.

East Bay DSA Blows The Whistle On Corporate Dem Donor Class

In multicultural San Francisco, poet Peter Neil Carroll captures the local support for refugee rights.

One of the most important lessons that German history has to offer is less about Hitler than about those around him, many of whom were not even Nazis. The enablers also bear responsibility.

The right denigrates equal rights campaigns as ‘grievances’ while cornering the market in victimhood

In an interview, Black Lives Matter organizer Aislinn Pulley explains why she sees the verdict as a step toward dismantling the systems of racist policing and economic inequality that have defined Chicago for decades.