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In persisting with its high rates policy, the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel Without a Cause.

Private equity firms are buying up asbestos liability claims — and asbestos victims will pay the price.

Lithium mining in Serbia reveals the ever-expanding extractivist frontiers and integration of peripheries. Yet, the resistance to the lithium mining project, serves as a testament to the possibility of fighting for alternative sustainable futures.

Top Dems Pull Away From Biden. I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane (Parody). The Billionaire Family Suffocating Rural America. Clarence Thomas Tries To Protect Himself. “I’m Bored, So I Shoot”: Israeli Troops Authorized to Shoot at Will.

The Republicans’ gathering in Milwaukee next week will be simply this: a four-day fealty fest.

Ocasio-Cortez’s articles of impeachment against the rogue justices probably won’t remove them. But history suggests it might help tame the court in other ways.

In rejecting facts to please their political party—and their patrons—the justices of the Court’s majority have broken their oath, made to both the Constitution and the American people.

It follows from reputable studies of longevity that the best protocol for living a good, long, fulfilled and productive life is to focus on nailing what actually matters, and then not stress about the rest

State Republicans devastated unions, but union electoral power is crucial to defeating Trump. Now there is heightened union support across the country and increased labor activity in Wisconsin. Can Democrats seize on renewed enthusiasm for unions?