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  1. What We Didn’t Hear At the Debate Fast Food Workers Stage Nationwide Protest in front of McDonalds
    10 Oct 2016 … In a debate that will be most remembered for Donald Trump's diss of democracy, there was little said about the anxieties that appear to be undermining it. Big questions about the old economy and new economy were not addressed. Here Continue reading
  2. Pope Francis Embraced the Most Subversive Voices in Modern American Catholicism 'Much as the legacies and lives of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks have been historically revised and sanitized,' explains Scahill, 'so too are the lives of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.' (Photo: Archive/via miriampawel.com)
    10 Oct 2015 … Holding up these two radical, pacifist, militantly anti-war Catholics as role models was a remarkable act by Pope Francis. Continue reading
  3. Is Trump Launching a New World Order? President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attend the Arabic Islamic American Summit at King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 21, 2017. (Photo by Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Kingdom Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, we’ve been told, President Trump is dismantling the Continue reading
  4. Segment: Thomas Cahill on the People’s Pope
    12 Dec 2013 … Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms. Continue reading
  5. Panama Papers Offer More Evidence That Free Trade Isn’t Really Free (L-R) Vernon Jordan, former US President Bill Clinton, Ron Kirk and US President Barack Obama walk off a green while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club August 15, 2015, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard. (Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … You might wonder what the connection is between a friendly game of golf last summer in Martha’s Vineyard and the Panama Papers. Read on. As anyone who hasn’t been in a cave – or otherwise away from the Internet — Continue reading
  6. Time or Money: The US Worker’s Dilemma Worker in bottle factory, 2000
    4 Apr 2003 … This bill looks at a bill that would change how overtime works and considered the economic effects of the Iraq War and the societal effects of September 11. Continue reading
  7. Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:01 A.M. EDT. THIS PHOTO MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED ONLINE BEFORE 12:01 A.M. EDT. - In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Gan Golan, of Los Angeles, dressed as the "Master of Degrees," holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt, during Occupy DC activities in Washington. As President Obama prepared to announce new measures Wednesday to help ease the burden of student loan debt, new figures painted a demoralizing picture of college costs for students and parents: Average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose an additional $631 this fall, or 8.3 percent, compared with a year ago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    3 Mar 2014 … Higher education is being defunded as part of a larger scheme to dismantle and privatize all public services, goods and spheres. Continue reading
  8. Activists to Watch: Daniel Schlademan
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Schlademan is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading
  9. Why We Need a Retail Workers Bill of Rights
    8 Aug 2014 … Despite its high minimum wage, San Francisco has the second-highest rate of income inequality among major US cities. Continue reading
  10. What Donald Trump and the Republican Party Could Learn From Cleveland The skyline of downtown Cleveland is reflected on the windows of the Convention Center, where the Republican National Convention opens Monday. (Photo by Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Located in one of the most important swing counties in the country, Cleveland is a tale of two cites: one represented by an increasingly vibrant downtown and a growing knowledge economy; the other, a hollowed-out collection of neighborhoods increasingly left Continue reading