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The Michigan legislature seemed to take bold steps toward improving working conditions for its constituents: It passed legislation that would guarantee workers the right to earn paid sick leave, as well as a minimum wage increase to $12 an hour.

For decades, some of the atomic matter in the universe had not been located. Recent papers reveal where it’s been hiding.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines commitment to Black equality was far more radical than America’s founding fathers, who freed the U.S. from England but let Black Americans stay in chains for another nine decades.

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color. Those who wish to see justice in their lifetime will have go to the polls and seize it.

Seventeen years into the war in Afghanistan, American officials routinely issue inflated assessments of progress that contradict what is actually happening there.

Census Bureau report for 2017 shows that while all race and ethnic groups shared in the growth in median household incomes during the previous two years, that trend abruptly ended for African American households in 2017.

Nike’s Kaepernick ad continues — and tweaks — the tradition of brands commodifying politics. Kaepernick’s ad, and the message he offers, may illuminate the promise of innovative creative forms, including advertising.

Fascists did not come to power in the mid-war period by promising violence, war or concentration camps.

“Reports of privacy and safety violations in public restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms are exceedingly rare.”

To put it crudely, we grew up in an era when liberals were winning the culture wars, but conservatives were winning the economic wars.