Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based journalist, author and assistant professor at Northwestern University, where she leads the investigative specialization at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Her books include Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%.

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The Death Blow for British Coal
New revelations have surfaced about police brutality in Thatcher's 1984 battle with miners.
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Labor
Illinois Coal Bankruptcy: Good News for Environment, Bad News for Workers
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Fighting Fiscal-Cliff Cuts, Home Care Workers and Employers Forge Alliance
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Rahm the Grinch? Janitors Say Emanuel Is Stealing Their Christmas
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Workers on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Start a ‘Fight For 15’ (Dollars Per Hour)
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Opponents Cry Foul as Arizona Copper Mine Blames Congress for Layoffs
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Facing Job Losses and Wage Cuts, Chicago Airport Janitors Pay Rahm Emanuel a Birthday Visit
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The Freelance Life: Blessing or Curse?
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Harry Malkin: From Pit to Paintbrush
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Chicago Passes Austerity Budget with Little Debate (But More Than Usual)
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Airports Go Green … And, Labor Leaders Fear, Bust Unions
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Activists Arrested Confronting Dick Durbin About ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Chicagoans dressed as Robin Hood staged civil disobedience at the Majority Whip's office.
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At ‘Official’ Budget Hearing, Chicagoans Find Official Indifference and Empty Chairs
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Chicagoans Ask City Councillors To Fight Emanuel’s Cruelest Cuts
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Chicago Chicanos ‘Read Out’ in Solidarity with Tucson
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Labor
At Alt Budget Hearing, Chicagoans Decry Privatization and Job Cuts
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Labor
New Contract Spells Good News for 1,200 Chicago Airport Workers—Unless City Moots It
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Chicagoans Give Rahm Emanuel Poor Grades
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The Original Coal Country
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Lessons From Essen: What the U.S. Rust Belt Can Learn From Germany
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Lawsuit Sheds Light on Murky and Dangerous Warehouse Sector
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City Janitors Are Latest To Feel Sting of Emanuel’s Cost-Cutting
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Labor
Illinois Unions Fight Prison Closures
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Romney’s Bain in the Ass
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Chicago Teachers Move Toward Strike (Updated)
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Rahm Emanuel’s ‘Leaky Jobs Pipeline’ Exposed
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Not-For-Profit Hospitals Make Billions—and Provide Little Charity Care
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Chicago: Occupiers of Mental Health Clinics Face Trial
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Chicago Protesters: “Take TIFs Off the Menu!”
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NLRB Rules In Favor of Chicago’s Columbia College Professors
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Global Hyatt Boycott Heats Up
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Hyatt Worker Cathy Youngblood: We’re Not Going To Stop “Until We Get What We Need”
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Making Health Care Reform Work: A Perspective from California Doctors
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Going Undercover to Determine the Real Price of Sex
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Complaint Filed Against California Walmart Warehouse
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New York Cabbies Celebrate
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Chicago Coal Gasification Plant: Good Jobs or Bad Gas?
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Rio Tinto Smelter Workers, United Steelworkers Reach a Deal
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Radical History from Bristol to Chicago
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Culture
Our Kind of (Torturing) Town
Journalist John Conroy's first play chronicles a police brutality scandal in Chicago.
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Shafted: Reflecting on Miners, Media and Margaret Thatcher
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Irish Farmers Say Shell Oil Operations Bring Injustice, Not Jobs
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Chicago Teachers Union Takes the Upper Hand with Overwhelming Strike Vote
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Youth Sex Workers Organize for Their Rights
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Unhappy Father’s Day! Paid Paternity Leave Far From Reality in United States
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Black Days for the Irish Economy
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Ireland Amidst Turf Wars, Literally
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Hard Times in Free Derry
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