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A little debt-ceiling history, and a few suggestions
August 5, 2011It was a double "hostage crisis": The right enforced party discipline on the whole GOP and then made the Democrats negotiate on its own terms.
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Unions say “voter ID” is Jim Crow revisited
August 5, 2011The AFL-CIO is mapping plans to educate its members, other workers and the wider electorate in how to overcome efforts to suppress the right to vote.
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Castro reports progress, criticizes religious discrimination
August 5, 2011Raul Castro gave a generally upbeat report on economic and other progress, but sharply criticized the tendency of some officials to allow old habits to become obstacles to change.
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Right wing running scared in Wisconsin
August 5, 2011With the first big electoral test of whether organized labor can successfully push back at the polls against the radical right, it is apparent here that labor's opponents are running scared.
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1,300 locked out sugar workers fight for jobs, families
August 4, 2011Workers are locked outside company gates as their union battles an employer they say is determined to slash health benefits and weaken job security.
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