The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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Protect the Right to Choose
A barrage of legislation aims to circumvent the fact that abortion is legal.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Defend Social Security
Democrats must refuse to mess with the retirement program.
Heather Digby Parton
Labor
Despite Polling, Progressives Still Scrambling to Win Budget Fight
Art Levine

Labor
Iranian Labor and the Struggle for Independent Unions
Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani
Rep. Schakowsky’s Push for Billionaire Tax Hike Goes Nowhere, Fast
Minjae Park

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The Real Deficit Culprits: Offshoring and Corporate Tax Evasion
Jack Rasmus

Labor
After Detroit School Scandal, Strong Words From ICE Union President
Kari Lydersen
Weekly Diaspora: How Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unauthorized Immigration
Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger

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Condemn Censorship
Despite NPR's timidity and capitulation to the Right, we need to support public radio more than ever.
Susan J. Douglas
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Michigan’s New ‘Emergency Manager’ Law in Action
Jeremy Gantz

Labor
Student Debt Keeps Rising. Is There an ‘Education Bubble’?
Akito Yoshikane
Comics
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Eric Garcia
Weekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare
Lindsay Beyerstein

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Stand in Solidarity
If conservatives take away unions, they will take away America's middle class.
Kevin O'Donnell

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Save Democracy in Michigan
The state's "Emergency Manager" law is more insidious than anything in Wisconsin.
David Green

Labor
Study: Increasing Wages at Wal-Mart Would Barely Affect Shoppers
Mike Elk

Labor
Labor Looks Behind Obama’s Budget Pitch, Finds Risky Policies
Roger Bybee

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A Labor Law Bosses Would Love
Backed by industrialists, Mexican politicians are on the verge of erasing most workers' rights.
David Bacon
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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