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“It’s direct, indisputable, empirical evidence that this kind of common claim that ‘the only thing that stops a bad guy with the gun is a good guy with the gun’ is wrong."

This book, published two years ago (as was this review), remains timely, especially given decisions already handed down by the evangelical Christian U.S. Supreme Court majority, as well as those expected from the Court later this month.

The National Labor Relations Board determined Tuesday that a majority of Union Kitchen workers in Washington,DC voted to unionize, according to the freshly-minted labor union’s collective bargaining agent, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400.

The Janes felt only months ago like a warning. Now it feels like a manual for action.

A choice for organized baristas - if you can't get a union, buy the coffee shop

Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s June 19 election, becoming its first ever left-wing president. We analyze what this means for Latin America, the US, Venezuela, the military, paramilitary groups, the powerful oligarchy, and social movements.

The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.

A brief history of how the Democratic Party’s turn to market capitalism wrecked everything.

"We are witnessing one of the most extreme Supreme Courts in modern history rewrite the most basic social commitments of our society," said the head of one of the nation's largest teachers unions.

But one of the biggest drivers of inflation, at least according to the most recent Consumer Price Index report, has not elicited even a peep from the political class: the soaring cost of housing.