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  1. Hate Like This Is Spreading Across the Country
    11 Nov 2016 … Donald Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric has been encouraging violence against people of color since the beginning of his campaign. In March, for example, Wichita State University student Khondoker Usama and his friend were assaulted at a gas station. After, the perpetrator Continue reading
  2. ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’ Demands $15 an Hour FDR signs social security act in 1935
    4 Apr 2015 … President Obama and aspiring Democratic candidates need to “take a note” from FDR and set a progressive-populist political agenda for the upcoming campaigns. Continue reading
  3. Who Says It Can’t Happen Here? President Donald Trump is seen during a campaign rally at the AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport on February 18, 2017 in Melbourne, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … Donald Trump’s candidacy and now, presidency, have resurrected a public discourse not heard in this country since the Great Depression — an anxious discourse about the possible triumph in America of a fascist-tinged authoritarian regime over liberal democracy. It’s a fear Sinclair Lewis turned Continue reading
  4. When is the White House Meeting With Low-Income Americans? JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein leave the White House in Washington following a meeting between chief executives and President Barack Obama. March 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    1 Jan 2013 … Why haven't low-income Americans been given an opportunity to meet with the president to tell their own stories? Continue reading
  5. The Demolition of Workers’ Comp Dennis Whedbee
    3 Mar 2015 … Over the past decade, states have slashed workers’ comp benefits, denying injured workers the help they need and shifting the costs of accidents to taxpayers. Continue reading
  6. White New Orleans Has Recovered from Hurricane Katrina. Black New Orleans Has Not. Canal Street is flooded a day after Hurricane Katrina blew through Aug. 30, 2005 in New Orleans. Today, nearly 1 in 3 black residents have not returned to the city after the storm. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … 96,000. That’s how many fewer African-Americans are living in New Orleans now than prior to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall 11 years ago today. Nearly 1 in 3 black residents have not returned to the city after the storm. Continue reading
  7. Ensure Access to Safe and Affordable Rental Housing
    1 Jan 2015 … Half of all renters spend more than 30 percent of their gross income on housing, while 27 percent spend more than 50 percent — both sharp increases over the last decade. Continue reading
  8. Bernie, The Donald and the Sins of Liberalism: An American Version of Class Struggle Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images), and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images). To a degree, Trump and Sanders are competing for the same constituencies, writes Steve Fraser.
    6 Jun 2016 … Arising from the shadows of the American repressed, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have been sending chills through the corridors of establishment power. Who would have thunk it? Two men, both outliers, though in starkly different ways, seem to be Continue reading
  9. Sherman Alexie’s Young Adult Novel Pulled From Curriculum in Idaho Schools
    4 Apr 2014 … His award winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is one of the most banned books in America. Continue reading
  10. In Los Angeles, Labor Redefines Itself
    9 Sep 2013 … In a watershed moment in labor history, the AFL-CIO has decided to expand its membership to include all groups fighting to organize workers. Continue reading