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Day Laborers Leader on Right-Wing Hostility: “So Far, We Have Won This Fight“
We recently spoke with Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
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The ADHD Epidemic: Smart Drugs and the Control of Bodies and Minds
What is taken for granted in corporate media coverage is a system of test-oriented high stakes educational competition that filters into capitalist competition.
EPA’s Inaction Made Way for Lead Poisoning in Children, Lawsuit Claims
Seven years after promising new standards for assessing lead dust dangers, the federal government hasn't delivered.
Black Women Do Breastfeed, Despite Intense Systemic Barriers in the US
Targeted and systemic support for Black mothers is needed to overcome the racial gap in breastfeeding rates in the US.
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Where Has All the Money for Our Schools Gone?
New government spending data could reveal how tax breaks for big businesses leave K-12 school funding out to dry.
The Political Significance of Being Inconvenienced
Striving for justice in the long term is worth the upset in the present, worth the mess and the noise of trying to figure it all out.
NASA Study Confirms Methane Pollution From Oil and Gas
Last week, NASA released a follow-up study on its 2014 report that exposed a huge methane hotspot looming over the Four Corners.
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Lack of Sense
This episode of Professor Wolff's radio show discusses graduate students unionizing, and more.
Vijay Prashad: Hillary Clinton Shows Dangerous Tendency to Go to War No Matter the Consequences
Scholar Vijay Prashad discusses the US election and notes that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the charge against Libya.
Bernie Sanders Launches New Organization, but Key Staffers Quit in Protest
Reports have emerged of political tumult within Bernie Sanders' own team.