The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
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Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger

Labor
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Michelle Chen
Viewpoint
Political Corruption Laws: Absurd Theater
Leonard C. Goodman
Labor
Can’t Get No Satisfaction at United Airlines
Carl Finamore
Weekly Pulse: Giffords Shooting Reveals Flaws in U.S. Mental Health Services
Lindsay Beyerstein
Labor
In Iowa, Locked-Out Roquette Workers File International Complaint
Akito Yoshikane

Dispatch
Russia Claims the High Ground
The Kremlin condemns persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange—but it may soon change its tune
Fred Weir

Labor
‘Class War’ Between Private and Public Sector Unions?
Mike Elk

Labor
Rude Recession Awakening: Fundamental Breakage Between Democratic Party and Labor
Roger Bybee
Comics
violentpolitics
August Pollak

Labor
The Truth Behind the December Jobless Numbers
Jack Rasmus
Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords
Lindsay Beyerstein
Viewpoint
Hate Speech, the Right’s Magic Bullet
Michael Winship
Labor
Storytelling as Organizing: How to Rescue the Left from its Crisis of Imagination
Adam Kader
Labor
Teamsters Lament ‘In-Sourcing’ At Chicago Rail Yard
Kari Lydersen
Labor
Voices From These Times: ‘Edsals’
Lisa Simons

Culture
Death and Crossing
Too many migrants meet Santa Muerte.
Norma Price
Labor
Why Do 48 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Unions?
Jeremy Gantz
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