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Organizing can achieve results, and collective strength sometimes overcomes powerful interests.For example, days after labor unions and progressive…
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Among the U.S. Senate’s almost unique powers of conducting impeachment trials, ratifying treaties, and voting on appointments as ambassadors and Supreme…
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Many Americans are worried about the influence that for-profit corporations and the rich have on elections, but will that concern translate unto a healthy…
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Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Tom Jackson last week apologized to the family of unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown. Brown was fatally shot by a cop…
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Workers who used to be on the edges of the economy – day laborers and temps, freelancers and adjuncts, independent contractors and contingent employees –…
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This week I’m one of the Baby Boomers who’ll be added to the ranks of the program that’s the closest this country has to universal health care: Medicare.…
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The mere accumulation of facts doesn’t always lead to good conclusions, judgment or wisdom. Too many of us, progressive and conservative alike, can fall…
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In two controversial decisions this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for unions to operate, and could make it more important to come…
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Progressive Democrats are fighting back against employers that break the law by introducing legislation on Capitol Hill that makes free association with…
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A lot of attention is understandably being paid to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent “Harris v. Quinn” ruling.It eliminated agency-fee arrangements for…