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Last week’s walkout at the Smithfield Packing Company was a significant victory for labor organizers and exploited undocumented workers at the North Carolina plant.
We welcome Lakshmi Chaudhry and Christopher Hayes as contributing writers to The Nation and to The Notion, our online blog. Both have appeared previously in The Nation.
Claire McCaskill’s victory in Missouri proves that moral politics is growing more expansive–and less Republican–as values voters waken to the moral bankruptcy of the religious right.