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Landmark farmworker bill on its way to governor’s desk

June 10, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

A bill to make it easier for California's 400,000 farmworkers to choose a union passed both houses of the California Legislature.

Justice Scalia and the Dybbuk

June 1, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

It seems that, for second time since I can remember, a federal justice has been possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit in Jewish mythology.

Workers, supporters cheer cheating contractor’s downfall

May 27, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

A huge wage-theft case against a San Francisco Bay Area contractor almost reached the finish line May 26. One last chapter must still be written.

Political murder in Vietnamese America – a new film

May 24, 2011 By Nadya Williams

An unexplored and deadly consequence of the Vietnam war occurred on U.S. soil - the political assassinations of six Vietnamese-Americans, five of them journalists - between 1981 and 1990.

Supreme Court rules Calif. must reduce inmates

May 24, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

After a long court battle, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, on May 23 that California must lower its prison population by tens of thousands in the next two years, so the state can provide decent...