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New U.N. Report Shows Just How Awful Globalization and Informal Employment Are for Workers

Elizabeth Grossman

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Donald Trump’s Energy Adviser Doesn’t Know How Electricity Works

And other takeaways from yesterday's debate between Clinton and Trump’s energy advisers.

Kate Aronoff

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Remembering Tom Hayden (1939-2016): My Friend and a Lifelong Change Maker

The activist and lawmaker leaves behind a life worth studying.

Richard Flacks

Labor

Beyond the Fight for 15: The Worker-led Fast Food Union Campaign Building Power on the Shop Floor

Arun Gupta

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Voices from the Movement for Native Lives

Advocates talk about the country's "silent, comfortable genocide."

Stephanie Woodard

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In “Fleabag,” TV Finally Gives Us a Female Anti-Hero to Love

The six-part British series shows us a self-destructive, bitter, angry young woman and trusts that we will care about her pain.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Luxury of Opting Out of This Election

People whose livelihoods can turn with an election can't afford to wait for a third party to rescue them.

James Thindwa

Labor

Leaks Show Machinists’ Union President Secretly Moved Up Endorsement Vote to Help Clinton

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

Co-op Corruption: The Fight to Restore Democratic Control Begins in New Mexico

Tracy Frisch

Labor

BREAKING—One Bourbon, One Strike and No Fear: Jim Beam Workers Win a Better Contract

Mario Vasquez

Rural America

Federal Species Survival Plan Threatens Existence of Wild Red Wolf Population

Dan Zukowski

Labor

In Wake of NLRB Ruling, AFT and SEIU Vie to Organize Grad Student Workers at Northwestern

Jeff Schuhrke

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Neither Clinton Nor Trump Is the Great Pumpkin

On the 50th anniversary of the Charlie Brown classic, politics reminds us that hope isn’t always an asset.

Theo Anderson

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Trump’s Right: The Election Is Rigged. But He’s Wrong About Who’s Rigging It.

There’s a reason people feel unheard in American democracy.

Kate Aronoff

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“Pussy Grabs Back” Organizers React to Debate, Plan Ahead Post-Election

Defeating Trump is No. 1. But holding a Clinton administration accountable to the left is a close second.

Kate Aronoff

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In Raging Battle for North Carolina, Progressives Push Back

The state seems to sum up both the worst and the best of American politics.

Theo Anderson

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3 Reasons To Be Worried About the Blackstone Group—and Their Friend, Hillary Clinton

Leaked emails show Clinton’s advisers sought to “develop a real relationship with" the controversial private equity firm.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

The Two-Tier Provision in the Chicago Teachers Union’s Tentative Agreement, Explained

Shaun Richman