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David Simon has created a gritty, urban drama about the moment pornography became "street legal" in New York City, and the commodification of flesh became an industry.

DigBoston commits to expanding coverage of workers and unions

With Gill v. Whitford, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken the most important case in decades dealing with how Americans are represented in Congress and state legislatures.

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, removed an anti-Semitic meme from his Facebook page on Sunday after an outcry from Israeli politicians and Jewish community leaders in the United States. The image, posted by Yair Netanyahu on Friday, appeared to be a local take on a classic anti-Semitic cartoon suggesting that Jews control the United States. It has appeared widely on extreme alt-right websites.

Norway's parliamentary elections on Monday, September 11, 2017 will point the way forward for the country's left.

Would something like us have appeared if that asteroid had missed?

On August 31st, the National Football League ended it’s much ballyhooed $30 million commitment to fund the National Institute of Health’s research into football-related brain injuries. The NIH balked, with $16 million unspent, when the NFL tried to place restrictions on its “unrestricted gift.” The NFL, with projected revenues of $14 billion in 2017, has taken the science in-house, ending any pretense NFL-funded “concussion" research will be independent.

Complaining About Hillary's Campaign Book Is a Huge Waste of the Progressive Movement's Time. Why aren't they focusing on the anti-democratic practices that split the Democratic Party?

The workers protested against unreasonable rules, including a required three-day notice to take leave for a death in the family.

The fiscal constraints the island’s bondholders have inflicted will make hurricane recovery very difficult.