What was once a fringe legal theory now stands a real chance of being adopted by the Supreme Court.
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union. Every officer comes from the ranks of working flight attendants, there is no gap between the lived experience of the rank and file and union leadership.
Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.
Our society values health care and education in theory, but it constantly undermines them in practice. Public sector workers feel that discrepancy most acutely. They’re striking to force our society to put its money where its mouth is.
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The most important bank in Silicon Valley has failed, triggering economic uncertainty nationwide. To blame: tough-talking tech dudes, a reckless Congress, contradictory monetary policy, and even Barney Frank.
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The real culprit here is the diminution of US productive capacity and supply chain disruption caused by four decades of neoliberal policies – disinvestment, deregulation, outsourcing - which have prevented supply-side measures to bring prices down.
My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.
New regulations allow the food industry to hide important information from consumers, and it could get worse.
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