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The attempt to close CCSF is an extreme sample of what is coming to higher ed nationally.

After years of embarrassing denial, the AFL-CIO recently took its first baby step in addressing the crisis that has engulfed organized labor: it recognized there was a problem. In the …

Gerald Friedman: “Only a single payer program can provide universal coverage, and only a single payer program can control costs.”

Nothing less than our collective, twenty-first century understandings of such terms as u201cdemocracy,u201d u201crevolution,u201d and u201cviolence/nonviolenceu201d are being forged on the streets of Egypt today.

“I absolutely intend that I will come back to my country when I choose,” Glenn Greenwald tells Truthout.

The NSA surveillance scandal is causing an uproar in Germany where the political landscape is haunted by a Nazi era intrusive government.

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that the path to equality must begin with full employment.

Dean Baker: Contracts with Wall Street types always seem to draw more respect than contracts with workers.

The most important decisions about stuff are not those made in the supermarket or department store aisles.

Ellen Brown: Giant banks are buying up our country's infrastructure - the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy.