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Corporate Greed

Cincinnati May Sell One of the US’s Last Publicly…

Please DO NOT let this happen. Elected officials in Cincinnati are considering a lucrative deal with rail executives that would sell one of the last publicly owned stretches of rail line in the US to Norfolk Southern, the company behind the disastrous train derailment in Ohio last winter. Next month, the company behind an Ohio

Equality

The Violence in Palestine and Israel Is the Tragic…

The tragic scenes unfolding in Palestine and Israel are a chilling reminder of the horrors that occupation creates — and the urgency of dismantling Israel’s blockades and apartheid system. In the early morning hours of Saturday, under a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, dozens in the Palestinian militant group Hamas broke out of the

Labor

Trump Is Speaking Tonight in Michigan at a Nonunion…

For days, the mainstream media has said Donald Trump is going to Michigan to speak to union autoworkers. That’s completely false: he is traveling there today to speak at a nonunion auto-parts shop, at the invitation of its boss. This evening, rather than attend the second Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump will speak at Drake

Politics

It’s Easy to Dramatically Cut Poverty. US Policymakers Just…

Children, the elderly, disabled people, and students continue to make up the vast majority of the US poor. We could easily slash poverty by increasing the generosity and reach of benefit programs for the nonworking population — but lawmakers refuse to do so. The Census released the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey