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The most compelling evidence that the president may have obstructed justice appears to come from his own most senior and loyal aides.

How winning campaigns are working to overcome the sexism and racism that nonwhite candidates face.

On July 29th the Los Angeles Public Defenders’ Union was formally recognized by the Los Angeles County Employee Relations Committee. This paves the way for collective bargaining for the attorneys who represent defendants.

Sorry to Bother You’s focus on the necessity of workers to realize that they’re stronger and better off as a cohesive unit with the strength of a union behind them is astonishing and refreshing.

Watching the Poor; Centrists in Search of a Majority; Justifying Nativism; Nice Terrorists; Forget and Forgive; One In, Two Out

You thought the US cheese surplus was huge? Get a load of the excess meat.

Four basic underpinnings of the more broadly shared prosperity in the post-World War II years have been undone inside the “advanced” nations, helping to create shocking inequality and poverty in the U.S.

The question for us is how do we sustain ourselves when the Angel of History is mute? How do we push forward when there appears to be no gradation to the curvature of the moral universe?

The Oregon lawsuit was supported by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which is handling some 200 other cases across the country, including a class-action lawsuit in California by 30,000 state employees.

In the name of the fight against terrorism, the United States is currently waging “credit-card wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.