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Although Twitter’s founders, investors and employees deserve to be rewarded for their ingenuity and hard work, the company’s public offering provides an opportunity to take stock of the growing disparities and misplaced priorities in the home of the nation’s celebrated technology industry.

Spying on Ban Ki-moon, New York election, seniors, Detroit, and food stamps

Some unions have called for the repeal of Obamacare and a return to the status quo before its passage. We in the Labor Campaign believe that such a call would be a disaster for the labor movement. Rather, we believe that this is a moment to move forward to healthcare justice by ac- knowledging the weaknesses in the ACA while defending its gains and moving to establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that would make healthcare a right for everyone in America.

Brains of babies who heard melody before birth react more strongly to tune after birth and at four months, scientists say

As Afghan soldiers abuse a prisoner, American Special Forces stand idly by

Study: Americans safe from gun violence except in schools, malls, airports, movie theatres, workplaces, streets, own home