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We can’t say a world without police wouldn’t work when the places that supposedly “need” police have never received adequate resources to thrive.

In a culture that favors stories that revolve around men, women are too frequently treated as disposable asides who exist solely to further a male hero’s narrative arc. They are, literally in this description, things to be given to or taken away from male heroes.

Net Neutrality: act now!; Google joins the military industrial complex; Robots profiling; Net neutrality – the stakes; Chicago goes 1984; Trump and Twitter in the courts

Soldiers, civilians, and the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income pay the price for our never-ending wars

In 1970, postal workers went on strike and provoked a national crisis for the United States government. Their rebellion holds lessons for labor today.

NFL tells players patriotism is more important than protest – here’s why that didn’t work during WWI

Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement

Individual labor unions sometimes have interests that conflict with the greater public’s. While certain unions may be an obstacle to the greater good, unions are collectively a uniquely effective vehicle--not a "special interest group"--for realizing what matters most to working people.

In this op-ed, writer Kim Kelly explains the history behind child labor laws following a report that the Trump administration’s Department of Labor is considering rolling them back.

The potential effects of an anti-union ruling in Janus v. AFSCME could already be on display in Orange County, where a right-to-work group scored a win involving orientations for new in-home health care aides.