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Missouri voters sent a strong pro-worker message Tuesday by overturning an anti-union law.

The national debt today stands at $15.7 trillion. Two decisions made since 2000 — tax cuts and America’s wars since September 11, 2001 — together account for roughly two-thirds of that amount.

New York poet Philip Fried makes a diagnosis of brain damage to explain the body politic of a certain politician with orange hair.

For at least five years, ...Green Berets, Navy SEALs, ... and other commandos have been involved in reconnaissance and “direct action” combat raids ... in Somalia, Cameroon, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Tunisia.

Courage to Resist believes that all military personnel have a moral and legal obligation to refuse to comply with any order that involves collaboration with these immigrant concentration camps.

In terms of planning, the anarchy of the present is hard to dispute. In NYC, about 200,000 businesses contract directly with... roughly 260 trash-hauling companies, without regard for the geographic distribution of the company’s pickup points.

Since Trump’s election, O’odham on both sides of the border are leading an increasingly outspoken struggle to defend their land and way of life against threats of its destruction...

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson. It had a recognition that a good society rests on a sense of mutuality, reciprocity, and community spoke to what was wrong with a market society

After an all out effort by the labor movement, voters in Missouri rejected "right to work" legislation by a 2-1 margin. This reprised a labor victory from 40 years ago when voters rejected similar anti-worker legislation.

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