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Moving to a Graduated State Income Tax in Illinois. The state tax system would become fairer, more sustainable, and better for the Illinois economy. All that’s needed is the bipartisan political will.

The drama of data collection has made it to prestige TV

AFSCME 3299 authorizes strike; nurses, healthcare workers to strike in solidarity

The large and growing volume of data gathered shows that the N.S.A. continues to collect significant amounts of information about Americans’ phone and text messages after changes made by Congress in a 2015 law, the USA Freedom Act.

The Kentucky Derby is closely intertwined with Black Americans’ struggles for equality,

Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist. Marx was never content to sit back and let history take its course; he felt compelled to persuade, to use the workings of the news cycle as bits of evidence that his world view is the most sound.

US survey finds two-fifths of people between 65 and 80 report being sexually active, but topic is rarely discussed.

In the last 15 years agents with the Customs and Border Protection Agency have used deadly force in states up to 160 miles from the border, from Maine to California. These Customs and Border Protection encounters have proven deadly for at least 97 people – citizens and non-citizens – since 2003.

Revolutionaries, Agitators, and Organizers in Crime Fiction

After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.