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Undocumented Mothers in the US Are Often Vulnerable, Ignored and Misunderstood
Undocumented women face challenges with employment, health care, high rates of domestic violence and psychological trauma.
Could Stronger Unions Make China More Democratic?
There's overall more political space for labor unrest in China today than there is for any other form of social conflict.
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Why the US Chamber of Commerce Is Wrong on Citizens United
By a large margin Americans of all political persuasions object to the notions that money is speech and corporations have the rights of citizens.
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William Rivers Pitt | To Know the Darkness and the Light
On the heels of Robin Williams' death, William Rivers Pitt ruminates on living with bipolar depression.
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Solar Power Gets Hot, Hot, Hot
It's hard to rig the rules against increasingly competitive green energy options.
Gaza Blockade Hangs Fire in Cairo: Where Is the Antiwar Left?
What would be worse than the killing of innocents that has happened so far in Gaza? Doing nothing to stop the same killing of innocents in the future.
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Ten Theses on the Far Right in Europe
Michael Lowy explores the current and alarming force of Xenophobia - the fear of “strange and foreign” identities in Europe.
At Chicago’s “National Moment of Silence” Vigil, Activist Confronts “Black-on-Black Crime” Rhetoric
Malcolm London speaks at Daley Plaza during the Ferguson vigil on Thursday, August 14.
New Family Detention Centers Hold Immigrant Women and Children Without Bond as Asylum Claims Pend
The Obama administration has opened two new family detention centers to hold hundreds of women and children from Central America who fled to the United States reportedly to escape …