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The election at the LA Times comes on the heels of a recent spate of successful media union drives.

Most white voters voted for Trump, but not even most working-class white voters voted for him. If Roseanne and Dan Conner voted for Trump, it is not because they are working-class.

The move by Unifor comes a day after Canada's largest private sector union split from the CLC.

Lucy Parsons's life was rife with contradictions. But her commitment to workers' emancipation was never in doubt.

In 2015, the call-blocking app YouMail estimated that close to a billion robo-calls were being placed every month. Two years later, that number has leapt to 2.5 billion. At best, these calls annoy. At worst, they defraud. By far, they constitute the top consumer complaint received by the FTC.

2018 Women's March in Cartoons

Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle.

Many noble old ideas about free speech don’t compute in the age of social media. The notion that a “marketplace of ideas” will elevate the truth is flatly belied by the virality of fake news and the fact that the marketplace is no longer public.

It takes a special type of hypocrite to accuse your opponents of hypocrisy for following in your footsteps

Besides his role in voter suppression efforts, Farr, 63, also worked for a group founded by Southern business owners with the goal of suppressing workers' right to organize.