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Obama Signals Changes Likely to NSA Spying
A coalition of civil liberty and technology groups initially skeptical about Obama's panel told reporters that they support many of the recommendations.
Secret Trade Deal Spawns ‘We Will Not Obey’ Movement
When it comes to corporations trampling on local rights, the city of Madison, Wis., advises other cities and counties to do what it has done: Resist much. Obey not.
Temporary Work, Lasting Harm
When Davis walked into the factory, he joined one of the fastest-growing and more dangerous segments of the US labor market: blue-collar temp work.
Setback for Scalia in Attempt to Curtail Labor Rights
A SCOTUS pass on reviewing a lower court's labor decision leaves intact, for now, one of the few effective ways unions have for organizing traditional workplaces.
Obama Pursues “Occupation-Lite” in Afghanistan
Regardless of whether US troops stay in Afghanistan for ten more years, we can expect the country to be plagued with violence and vanishing rights for women. The only …
The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America
Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”
Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013
The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013.
The State Policy Network’s Cozy Relationship With Big Tobacco
The State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” in every state across the country, has close ties with the tobacco industry.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the US-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.
Archeology and the Atom
Aren't we glad that the people who lived at Idu did not have nuclear power or nuclear weapons?