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150 years later, a new battle over labor
April 12, 2011Our country today, April 12, marks the 150th anniversary of the official start of the Civil War with the firing on Fort Sumter.
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After 64 years, still paying the price for Taft-Hartley
April 5, 2011How did the landmark anti-labor legislation, backed at that time by Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, come to be the law of the land?
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“Miral”: controversial film paints Middle East mirage
April 5, 2011Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's latest venture onto the screen is a controversial adaptation of Rula Jebreal's novelistic memoir of her childhood and youth beginning just around the time of the Nakba, otherwise known as Israel's...
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“Have you left no sense of decency?”
March 29, 2011In the midst of the battle in Wisconsin, the Republican Party has revived McCarthyism to attack William Cronon, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.
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New Yorkers keep Triangle fire legacy alive
March 25, 2011NEW YORK (March 25) - Thousands of New Yorkers marked the 100th anniversary of the worst industrial accident in city history - the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist fire - with a ceremony at the site where 146...
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