politics
House to vote on sweeping labor law reform by mid-February
January 14, 2020The Democratic-run U.S. House will vote on the Protect the Right to Organize (Pro) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform bill in decades.
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In the Iowa caucus homestretch, Sanders takes aim at Trump
January 14, 2020He calls the current White House occupant “the most dangerous president in modern American history."
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Key Senate panel OKs ‘New NAFTA’ legislation
January 8, 2020"There is still a great deal of work to do in terms of implementing, monitoring and enforcing the provisions, but the base for progress is there."
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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?
January 7, 2020Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.
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Pro-worker measures among pile of unfinished congressional business
January 6, 2020Like so many other measures, the Equal Pay Act is languishing in the “socialist” pigeonhole proclaimed by McConnell.
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