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Jeff was a glorious model of a human being. Not a man without flaws, but a man with great passion, intelligence, determination, caring, humility, generosity, and an unwavering drive toward justice.

"Punitive systems only create more cycles of trauma and violence.”

New poverty data reveals the effectiveness of pandemic aid programs that are now expired. For poor Americans, building on that success is a matter of life and death.

First and foremost, we must remember that our real power lies in our workplaces and in the streets.

Forty-two years ago, North Carolina discovered that a company in the Northeast had dumped tons of polychlorinated biphenyls — PCBs, very cancer-causing carcinogenic substance — along the highways of North Carolina.

A review of "Work, Work, Work" by Michael Yates

“The debts we make are never paid, for us behind the wall,” write the incarcerated poet Cory Lambing, offering a glimpse of what it’s like to be inside.

There is growing interest in and a successful push for unionization in both chain and independent restaurants. Workers are being exposed not just to unions but to organizing. 

The Supreme Court majority aren’t done undermining American democracy.

A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.