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When It Comes to Pensions, Private Equity Funds Are Using Some Fuzzy Math

If we don't strengthen oversight over investments like private equity now, we could have a disaster on our hands in the not-so-distant future.

David Sirota

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In the West Bank, the Kids Aren’t All Right

Palestinian children are taken from their beds in night raids and not returned to their families for months.

Beth Maschinot

Labor

At 100 Colleges Around the Country, Adjuncts Take Action to Demand an End to Precarity and Low Pay

Andrew Mortazavi

Labor

After Anti-Union Violence Exposed, Bangladesh Garment Workers Win Victory Against Apparel Companies

Jonathan Brozdowski

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Why Rahm Emanuel Could Really Lose His Runoff Election in Chicago

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

Good News for New York’s Tipped Workers: Your Minimum Wage is Going Up

Kevin Solari

Labor

With Corporate Profits Soaring, AFL-CIO Unions Say “It’s Our Turn”

David Moberg

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The FCC Just Adopted Strong Net Neutrality Rules—Thanks to Activists

The victory wouldn't have been possible without agitation from the grassroots.

Jay Cassano

Labor

UNITE HERE Considers Itself Progressive. So Why Is the Union Standing with Rahm Emanuel?

Fred Klonsky

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With Chicago Tired of “Mayor 1%,” Chuy García Could Actually Win His Runoff with Rahm Emanuel

While money poured into the recent mayoral and aldermanic elections, voters showed that they are tired of business as usual.

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Progressives Had a Pretty Great Night in Chicago’s Elections

Yana Kunichoff

Viewpoint

In Mayoral Runoff, Rahm Emanuel’s Corrupt Governance Has Finally Caught Up With Him

It's become increasingly clear to Chicagoans that Rahm Emanuel is out for himself and his rich friends, not for us.

Rick Perlstein

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Politico Carries Water for Bill O’Reilly—and His Bosses

O'Reilly's claim that he was in a war zone was just an 'embellishment,' Dylan Byers assures us.

Jim Naureckas

Labor

Richard Trumka: AFL-CIO Will Make Raising Wages for All Workers a Priority

David Moberg

Comics

A Few Good Lies

Matt Bors

Captive Nation: Dan Berger on Black Prison Organizing and Mass Incarceration

George Lavender

Labor

New England Workers Win Longest Telecom Strike in Decades

Julia Kann

Labor

Chicago Charter School Teachers Demand a Union

Arielle Zionts