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State TNC and MC Legislation: Preemption and Employment Status of Drivers

In 2015, a wave of social movements lifted left-wing mayors to power in Spain. Their experience in office shows the importance of linking institutional power to bottom-up mobilization.

Tiny automated machines could soon take care of the entire growing process. Fewer chemicals, more efficient – where’s the downside?

Washington state poet Risa Denenberg writes of the fragility of human life on this imperiled planet while “Our sun winks…/without ambition.”

Next month, voters in Utah and Nebraska will decide measures to expand Medicaid and polling suggests they have a good chance of passing. But the Idaho ballot initiative may be the most audacious of them all.

It will be choices by voters like these — remaining steadfast in the face of intimidation — that will likely decide what polling data says is a close race for governor between Stacy Abrams and Brian Kemp

It also seems almost impossible that the United States intelligence agencies don’t have most, or all, of the information available to the Turkish authorities.

Illegal immigration to the US from Mexico is much lower than in the early 2000s, but growing numbers of families are fleeing the “northern triangle” of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to escape poverty and violence