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A deregulatory push led by top-level Republicans could turn back the clock to the heyday of predatory lending.

In the wake of the March 4th electoral rout El Salvador’s left is facing its starkest crisis in decades. The resounding rebuke of the FMLN and its government has resulted in significant gains for the quasi-fascist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and exacerbated serious internal divisions.

The protests were organized as “The Great March of Return,” a nonviolent gathering of Palestinian refugees who demand the right to return to their families’ homes inside Israel.

On Monday, schools will be shut down across Oklahoma as rank-and-file teachers look to build on the momentum of the West Virginia strike.

Judge Drops Charges Against 13 Who Argued Pipeline Civil Disobedience Action Was "Necessary" to Save Planet. "We are part of the movement that's standing up and saying, 'We won't let this go by on our watch.'"

The NLRB Just Dealt a Major Blow to the Fight for $15. Now’s the Time to Take Stock of the Campaign.

Approaching the 50th anniversary of MLK’s murder, California poet henry 7 reneau, jr., writes, “There’s a sickness in people”—Malice…Greed…Denial—“in opposition to…common sense.” Not too late to do something about it.

If FTC commissioners truly are serious about making Facebook serve the interests of the American public, here is a set of actions they should take

If you give public employees guns, they will turn them on black people.

The secrets Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) unfolds are a thousand times more frightful than Stephen King at his best. Except this is no novel. Not “Dr. Strangelove” but “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.”