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Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna introduced a new bill to curb so-called “corporate welfare.” It’s aimed squarely at Amazon.

As a new school year begins, teachers in California, Colorado and Illinois, among other states, are determined to continue the fight for better pay and school funding

Brett Kavanaugh helped spearhead the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for perjury. Then he committed the same offense in his own confirmation hearings as a federal judge.

Workers rights under the law have suffered systemic neglect since the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. Fixing it is a start, but much more needs to be done.

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An homage to the then recently deceased, superlative science fiction writer who encouraged the author, an apprentice novelist adrift in the publishing world, to be a better reader as well as an accomplished scribbler of exemplary fiction.

Politicians and pundits used Mollie’s death to promote various political agendas. We appealed to them and they graciously stopped. Sadly, others have ignored our request. They have instead chosen to callously distort and corrupt Mollie’s tragic death

A call for a new union strategy from three prominent workers' advocates. It is the concentration of wealth and power in this new economy, not computerization or artificial intelligence, that represents the gravest threat to our future.

We asked thinkers on the left—and a couple of outliers—to describe their vision for a re-imagined American economy. Just a decade ago, “socialism” was a dirty word in American politics. Not anymore.

Trump is a threat, but so too are the right-wing ideologues who surround him imposing a form of efficiency to implement their agendas. We should fear Trump, and we should fear the oped author. Both are dangerous.