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The veteran LGBT activist is fighting for an Assembly seat in California, but she faces tough opposition from a current representative who moved into her district and who is backed by Speaker John Perez.

An estimated 500 lives have been saved since March in a peace process launched by imprisoned Salvadoran gang members.

Outside the US, May 1 is international workers’ day. Unions, immigrant activists and Occupiers are now resurrecting May Day for Americans. 

To restore the American Dream for the 99 percent, we must first bring the “invisible poor” out of the shadows.

He was sanguine Tuesday night when I spoke with him by phone about his gerrymandered eviction from the US House of Representatives.

Natasja Sheriff on the EPA’s new rules, Eric Mann on the LA Metro’s civil rights violations, plus justice for Woody Guthrie and Dalton Trumbo

A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.

Notes on 2011’s preoccupied hearts and minds.