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Minnesota Home Care Workers Unionize

Home healthcare workers in Minnesota just established a union, opening the door for negotiating higher wages. 

Top Ten Labor Day Songs

In honor of Labor Day, here’s a stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people.

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.

Charles Koch Personally Founded a Group Protecting Oil Industry Handouts

Documents reveal Charles Koch founded the group that’s protecting oil industry handouts.

From Ferguson to Miami, a Generation Demands Justice

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

What the Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola Have in Common

Both thrive on the breakdown of the existing social order.

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 their families.

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.

Alison Lundergan Grimes: Secret Koch Conference Recording Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘47 Percent Moment’

McConnell and his opponent respond to secret recordings—obtained by the The Nation—of McConnell speaking to a roomful of millionaires and billionaires.

The ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed Page Wants More War (Again)

Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on The Washington Post's call for war.