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How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.

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The results of the strike won’t be known for days or weeks, said Azzurra Crispino, the media co-chair for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. “By withdrawing from participation in their work, they believe it’s the best way to have an impact on the prison industrial complex,” she said. “This is not a one-day strike. the solutions to this problem are going to require at the very least a constitutional amendment change to be effective.”

Tennessee, Volkswagen, and the Future of Labor

Agreement, hailed as breakthrough, aims to halt fighting and start US-Russian military cooperation in Syria.

Duke law professor Curtis Bradley and Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, both Bush administration alumni, warned, "If the United States reduces the immunity it accords to other nations, it exposes itself to an equivalent reduction in its own immunity abroad."

A quarter century ago, teaching a Native American History class at Duke, I noted that enrollment spiked after the release of Kevin Costner's blockbuster film about the post-Civil War West, Dances with Wolves. Sometime soon, Fox Searchlight Pictures is rolling out a movie about Nat Turner's 1831 Slave Revolt with the provocative title, Birth of a Nation. Though retired from the classroom, I find myself wondering whether another much-needed teaching moment is on the way.

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, crushed by China's military forces, no longer attract much editorial space, but the protests for freedom and the massacre that followed linger in history and in the conscience of the California poet Patrick Daly.