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Even in Trump country, pro-union sentiment is rising. But can labor and its allies turn that sentiment into power?

A nation that doesn't remember the people sent to fight on its behalf has no business sending more.

Guantánamo’s tainting of justice should, from early on, have served as a warning. Instead, it seems to have become a template for “justice” in the nation’s capital.

According to CNN and one of most widely-used research databases on police criminality, police in the U.S. received 1260 sexual assault charges in a nine-year period, including 405 rapes, 636 acts of sexual fondling and 219 acts of forcible sodomy.

In 2017, the number of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons reached 1467 children from various parts of the Palestinian territories. Moderator's NOTE: Sound familiar?

...this political violence is not happening in isolation. The murder of these 11 Jews in Pittsburgh is inextricably linked to the murder of the two black shoppers in Kentucky, to the slaughter of black worshipers in Charleston in 2015...

Our government is run by rich people — and it benefits them the most.

The teens of "Sabrina" are witch and human, girl and gender nonconforming—and they have a message: If magic isn’t used for justice, then it’s not witchcraft.

The NLRB based its decision on a particularly onerous provision in federal labor law that prohibits employees from engaging in boycotts, pickets or other activities that are aimed at a secondary employer.