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Crain’s Red-Baits a Nurses Union Leader on Labor Day

Crain’s Red-Baits a Nurses Union Leader on Labor Day Crain’s Red-Baits a Nurses Union Leader on Labor Day

The business press still insists on equating strong union organizing with communism.

Sep 2, 2014 / Laura Flanders

UPDATED: Michael Sam: Out of the Closet, Out of the NFL?

UPDATED: Michael Sam: Out of the Closet, Out of the NFL? UPDATED: Michael Sam: Out of the Closet, Out of the NFL?

Michael Sam, the first openly gay player with a chance of making an NFL team, now finds himself on the outside looking in.

Sep 2, 2014 / Dave Zirin

Happy Labor Day, Mom

Happy Labor Day, Mom Happy Labor Day, Mom

Education reformers have left out the human dimensions of a harsh labor market where women, like my mother, were regularly punished for not being men.

Aug 30, 2014 / William Greider

Yes, I ‘Question the NFL’s Commitment’ to Being a Force Against Domestic Violence

Yes, I ‘Question the NFL’s Commitment’ to Being a Force Against Domestic Violence Yes, I ‘Question the NFL’s Commitment’ to Being a Force Against Domestic Violence

The NFL’s stance against domestic violence is just a PR stunt.

Aug 29, 2014 / Dave Zirin

Columbia University E-mail Reveals Disdain for Anti-Rape Campus Movement

Columbia University E-mail Reveals Disdain for Anti-Rape Campus Movement Columbia University E-mail Reveals Disdain for Anti-Rape Campus Movement

Students fighting to improve campus sexual assault policies face indifference—or worse—from administrators.

Aug 29, 2014 / George Joseph

From Ferguson to Miami, a Generation Demands Justice

From Ferguson to Miami, a Generation Demands Justice From Ferguson to Miami, a Generation Demands Justice

Michael Brown, John Crawford, Reefa Hernandez—and a national youth movement.

Aug 29, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What the Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola Have in Common

What the Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola Have in Common What the Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola Have in Common

Both thrive on the breakdown of the existing social order.

Aug 28, 2014 / John Feffer and Foreign Policy In Focus

Immigrant Rights Advocates Stage Civil Disobedience at the White House

Immigrant Rights Advocates Stage Civil Disobedience at the White House Immigrant Rights Advocates Stage Civil Disobedience at the White House

Immigrants and allies rallied in more than a dozen US cities on Thursday to ask President Obama to use his executive authority to stop deportations of undocumented workers and thei...

Aug 28, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’

Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’ Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’

If you’re asking the question “Where is the movement?” you simply haven’t been paying attention.

Aug 28, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom

Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom

Under the spurious claim of protecting “civility,” the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has caved in to the McCarthyite bullying of the Israel lobby.

Aug 27, 2014 / David Palumbo-Liu

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