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RNC Workers Paid Below Minimum Wage; Fair Trade Fallout; Breaking Bad vs. The Wire

Mike Elk

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Union-Owned Bank Helps Scranton Restore Firefighters & Cops Pay

Mike Elk

Study: Calorie Restriction Didn’t Extend Monkeys’ Lives

Lindsay Beyerstein

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Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform

Michelle Chen

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City Janitors Are Latest To Feel Sting of Emanuel’s Cost-Cutting

Kari Lydersen

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The Climate Bites Back

Decades of aggressive urban sprawl have led to many Americans living in wildfire territory

David Sirota

Labor

From Arianna Huffington’s Unpaid Massage Therapists to Obama’s Bridge to Work Program

Mike Elk

Labor

State of California Charges SEIU With Physically Threatening Dissidents

Mike Elk

10 Planks the GOP Doesn’t Want You To See

Bhaskar Sunkara

Labor

Which Way Will The Pendulum Swing? Chicago Teachers Give Notice of Strike

David Moberg

Help Us Spur More Federal Investigations of Union Busting

Mike Elk

Seven Arrested in Launch of Keystone Pipeline Blockade

Rebecca Burns

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Yes, GOP, ‘We Built It.’ But Not Alone.

The Republican Convention's theme implies--wrongly--that entrepreneurs don't rely on public help.

Marilyn Katz

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Enough With the Rape Gaffes

Bizarre rape remarks by prominent Republicans are distracting from the fundamental reasons to defend abortion

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The GOP Parties Like It’s 1984

The script of the Republican National Convention reads like a Rambo reboot, with Democrats as the villains.

Theo Anderson

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Audit of Apple’s Chinese Factories Reveals Bandaid Reforms

Michelle Chen

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Illinois Unions Fight Prison Closures

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Blind Activists Boycott Goodwill Over Subminimum Pay

Bruce Vail