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"Instead of remaining complicit in worsening the effects of climate change, members of Congress in both the House and Senate must respond to this resolution with the urgency and support that this moment demands."

Guendelsberger spent a month working at an Amazon warehouse, as well as a McDonald’s and a Convergys call center, as research for her about-to-be-released book, On the Clock: What Low Wage Work Did to Me and How it Drives America Insane.

As Scandinavia shows, it does feature plenty of public ownership—but also a thriving economy.

One of the outfits promoting the efforts to counter the slew of climate lawsuits is none other than the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a center-left Washington, D.C.-based think tank with links to the Democratic party.

Movements are defined by their ability to challenge the status quo and, right now, that’s what might be beginning to happen when it comes to America’s wars.

Air, bottled water and seafood were the biggest sources for ingested microplastics. If you live somewhere with clean, safe tap water, relying less on bottled water is a great place to start reducing your plastics exposure.

...painting over the mural doesn’t redress the historical crime that the mural shows – if anything, it covers up the critique of it, a goal the McCarthyites and their committees were never able to achieve.

A range of U.S. policies have been deliberately designed to provoke an Iranian response.

Liz Shuler and Sara Nelson, both in their 40s and from Oregon, lead the undeclared race to succeed Richard Trumka at the union federation

As construction booms in an increasingly progressive city, workers find the power to unionize in the otherwise non-union South.