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From culture war to civil war?

Recordings from a 2019 panel discussion of the Council for National Policy reveal tax cuts were sparked by personal conversations

The Rolling Stone report comes in tandem with a damning Washington Post report detailing how space within the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. was used as a war room for efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

It is impossible to overstate how popular an expansion is across party lines and ideology. The only real opponents are Big Pharma and the for-profit insurance industry.

What’s going on? As the union presidents representing more than 3,000 longshore workers at the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma, we want to inform readers on the roots of the problem — and what can be done about it.

The milestone comes some six months after a failed high-profile union bid by Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who sought to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

In a video on Facebook, actor Alec Baldwin encouraged Hollywood workers to fight bad labor conditions. A commenter quickly accused his own production.

Michelle Wu's candidacy for Mayor, building on years of work by a variety of grassroots organizations, is cohering the kind of multi-racial coalition that could change the political landscape at both the city and state levels.

FDA guidance for specific sodium reduction goals for the food industry is groundbreaking.

As IATSE members decide how to vote on a proposed contract a horrific accident highlights the issues at stake. But whatever the outcome, members appear to be emerging from the pandemic and from this contract battle with a greater sense of power.