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New Documents Undermine Walker Statements on Criminal Probe
Despite claims that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not a “target” in the state's criminal campaign finance probe, newly-released documents demonstrate that prosecutors are indeed looking at his potentially …
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When Four Jobs Aren’t Enough: Why We Need a Living Wage
No person should die because they were too exhausted to leave the car after working multiple shifts just to make ends meet.
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It’s Harder to Reach the American Dream If You’re Reaching All Alone
“We won't be able to revive widely shared prosperity without strengthening the voice of workers at the workplace and in our politics.”
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The GOP War on Workers Has Killed Again
It's time to end the 34-year-old war on working people in the United States, and give all Americans an equal shot at success.
Labor Day Reality for Humanity on the Gallows – or Shall We Imagine Differently?
The US holiday Labor Day is a joke. Again there will be no visible strikes and no muscle-flexing by the labor movement.
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A Lesson to Learn
We are faced by difficult choices we are challenged to confront over a range of foreign and domestic policy concerns. We must decide whether to stand firm on principle …
But Is It Good for the Jews?
If you are over fifty and were raised in a Jewish household, you either heard this question, “but is it good for the Jews?”
Resisting the Surveillance State in Germany
On Saturday, August 30, more than 6,000 people took to the streets of Berlin, Germany to protest against intelligence agencies' mass surveillance.
LAPD Infiltrators and Agents Provocateurs Targeted Left and Panthers
David Cay Johnston says the LA Times shut down a major investigation into the widespread use of agents to undermine peaceful and legal opposition groups from the '60s to …
“A Slaughter of Innocents”: Henry Siegman, a Venerable Jewish Voice for Peace, on Gaza
Over the years, Henry Siegman, the former executive director of the American Jewish Congress, has become a vocal critic of Israel's policies in the Occupied Territories and has urged …