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Standing on a picket line, as Biden did with the UAW, is important. But that cannot be the limit of efforts to make the economy work better for working people.

Hollywood stars put their name to a good message, but it’s the messengers who are problematic

Workers at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) last week voted 120 to 59 in favor of unionizing under the auspices of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Cultural Workers United Council 18

Compensation for senior bosses at firms from Tesla to T-Mobile US worth more than those companies’ net tax payments, study finds

"We refuse to be bystanders as the Israeli government wages a genocidal campaign in our name," one rabbi said.

This study, writes reviewer Rosen, "assesses the growing gap between that super-rich millionaires and billionaires and ever-increasing number ordinary people who populate the planet."

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and “Oppenheimer”

Yet another “return to normal” Oscars — briefly disrupted by a statement from Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer criticizing Israel’s assault on Gaza — only demonstrates just how boring even a “good one” can be.

What would a Public Bank in New Jersey be? “The basic premise of such an institution is to hold the millions of dollars in taxpayer deposits that are normally kept in commercial banks and leverage them instead to serve some sort of public purpose."

"The root of this crisis is not last week, it’s not this week, it’s not even Ariel Henry. But we have to go back to 2004 with the coup-d’état,” says Pierre. “the whole world is participating in the occupation of Haiti unwittingly.”