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Remember the age-old question, what do all those with power want? More power. As such, two monopolies have dominated American politics for over 150 years-the Democratic Party, founded in 1828, and the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Together, they form a political cartel, or an association of political parties with the purpose of maintaining concentrated power and restricting or repressing competition.

When the Supreme Court ties 4-4, no precedent is set. Anyone in labor worried about that outcome in Friedrichs can rest a bit easier remembering that no precedent is needed here. Abood created the precedent in 1977, and Friedrichs was a shameless ideological ploy to overturn that longstanding precedent.

Rewriting Bernie's history; Black community loses WWRL; Skills gap; Kids depart social media; Flint fail; Copyright crisis

Antonin Scalia was quite simply a narrow-minded, mean-spirited man who propagated an intellectually absurd judicial theory known as "originalism."

Almost from the very beginning of human history, there were markets.

Canoas, Brazil Mayor Jairo Jorge recently published a book exhorting the left, in particular, but all progressives, to Radicalizar a Democracia: “We must engage citizens increasingly in . . . governments, giving them decision-making power over investments, public policies and strategic development projects at the city, state and national levels.”

Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Right to Decide -- Poster of the Week

In the last few years, California’s political landscape has set itself apart from national trends. We’ve increased spending on education, innovated the way funding works for K-12 public education, ended deep cuts to critical services, and begun reforming the justice system to provide second chances instead of lifelong disenfranchisement. November 2016 California's electorate will have new opportunities to unify and vote for policies that expand justice and equity.

A majority (53.1 percent) of workers earning less than $12.16 per hour—the bottom 30 percent of wage earners—earn so little on the job that they must rely on public assistance to make ends meet.

Whereas, most U.S. science teachers include climate science in their courses, their insufficient grasp of the science may hinder effective teaching. Mirroring some actors in the societal debate over climate change, many teachers repeat scientifically unsupported claims in class.