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As many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday. The fast food strike in Detroit is the second major labor action to hit an American city’s fast food industry this week: On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 100 workers in St. Louis walked off the job at roughly 30 different restaurants. These rolling walkouts followed similar actions in New York, central Pennsylvania, and Chicago.

The Democrats' stunning victory in Michigan and beyond exposed the limits of the organized Jewish community's political influence. The first Muslim elected to the Senate won despite AIPAC spending some $40 million against him.

Democrats in the midterms are finally backing Medicare for All as a campaign issue amid a rising tide of US support

Overcoming tensions between the Arab American and Black communities in Michigan will be key for the progressive’s Senate campaign.

Scientific American spoke to the Michigan Senate candidate about how his background in medicine has shaped his outlook

Progressives and socialists made historic gains in Democratic primaries. What happens in November is what really matters. A win in Michigan opens up a lane for progressives in other competitive races across the country — perhaps even....

The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

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