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Sexual harassment is often understood, like other forms of gender-based violence, as a violation of consent. It is more than that.

Erdrich takes up the genre of literary dystopia in a manner that is focused, writes reviewer Goodman, "on the agency of women and the centrality of procreation and pregnancy in the way they are treated by society."

The mobilization for Jones was just the latest chapter in “decades and generations of groundbreaking work to win voting rights” and “deep, proud movement building.”

"This action indicates an intent to appease employers who want every tool possible to defeat workers’ efforts to form a union, instead of ensuring the fairness of the union representation process," said Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia, the top Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

'The Public' follows a group of homeless library patrons, who, after learning that emergency shelters are at capacity during a brutal Midwestern cold front, refuse to leave Cincinnati’s downtown public library at closing. What begins as a nonviolent Occupy sit-in and ragtag act of civil disobedience quickly escalates into a stand-off with local riot police, a no-nonsense crisis negotiator, and a savvy DA with lofty political ambitions.

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Net Neut fight grows more dire; SNAFU USA; The Seder caper; Internet amidst the Big Melt; Bitcoin bamboozle; The Booker story

An interview with Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days

Feminism is now being weaponized for right-wing agendas. We must not allow that to happen.

Proposed changes contained in dueling GOP tax plans are aimed solely at finding revenue sources from higher ed in order to offset huge tax deductions given to wealthy families and corporations