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A Very Unusual Strike (1894), A Bad Day for the African National Congress (1964), Nazi Germany’s Secret Weapons (1944), Sticking it to Robert E. Lee (1864)

While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts.

Land-based missiles are redundant and dangerous.

How helping the poor became big business

Labor’s ability to improve queer workers’ lives stems from its power to raise standards for all workers.

Private equity and monopoly capitalists will destroy anything to make a buck, and they’ve turned their sights on TV and film. If you hated cable’s high prices, endless ads, and copycat programming, you’re going to loathe the future of streaming.

Norway, now maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth.

A plea not to be angry with the youth.

Recent outbreaks of bird flu – in US dairy herds, poultry farms in Australia and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humans – have raised the issue of food safety.

Disinformation and innuendo are weaponized. “Intruders” abound as well, even if they no longer need to take the Greyhound to the backwoods. Today’s agitators work through social media and podcasts.