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Mega-agriculture is destroying the Corn Belt and the Central Valley, which the country’s food system depends on. Can midsize farms survive to save it?

Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to close more schools, and to build a stadium plus luxury housing at the Port of Oakland.

Contrary to what Qualified Immunity’s defenders claim, it in no way helps police ‘do their jobs.’ It simply helps them get away with violating people’s civil rights.

Every brain experiences reality differently. This census aims to help us understand how human diversity encompasses not only perception, but consciousness itself. See the link at the end of the article to participate in the census.

The Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, already the state’s largest affiliation representing some 2,500 health care workers, will roughly double in size by bringing 2,200 more support staff under representation.

“The US labor movement is largely unprepared for—if not downright skittish about—taking up the question of how to contest a fundamental assault on democracy.”

One peace group praised AMLO for "once again providing such an important voice against U.S. imperialism and bullying."

The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against Union Kitchen last fall, detailing 26 violations of labor laws protecting unionizing workers.

A few recent series have notably nuanced depictions of brown teens. This is a promising development. (Those racist reactions? Not so much.)

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.