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Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.

The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions is undertaking “escalated action,” which means that the union is holding back the full force of the coalition of unions for the moment, with plans for additional strikes in November if needed.

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In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and messages on abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less extreme.

There are still 30 detainees at Guantánamo. Sixteen of them have been deemed no longer threats to the United States and cleared for release, but arrangements have yet to be made to transfer them... Now there are tiny steps toward closure.

How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union. Every officer comes from the ranks of working flight attendants, there is no gap between the lived experience of the rank and file and union leadership.

To say that anyone outside of the House GOP caucus had a hand in McCarthy’s downfall requires superhuman amounts of ignorance. It assumes Democrats exists to bail out the GOP from their mistakes and provide a bulwark against their own worst instincts

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