politics
This week in history: UN approves Jewish and Arab states in Palestine
November 27, 2017Seventy years ago, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181, remembered as the UN Partition Plan.
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Trump Labor Secretary Acosta defends rules cuts, GOP tax plan
November 17, 2017“In its first 10 months” under Trump “there are troubling questions about whether the department reversed important progress made during the previous administration.
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Building a majority movement during the “End Days”
November 16, 2017If progressives can trust in working people’s innate ability to struggle and grow over issues of race when organized around our shared values, we will see success.
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Review of “Reclaiming Gotham” misses de Blasio’s significance
November 15, 2017Bill de Blasio's win was a historic defeat of twenty-year Wall Street-Republican control of our city and a rejection of the discredited Democratic leadership’s neoliberal appeasement policies.
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Sexual harassment hits Congress; Rep. Holmes Norton moves to extend protections
November 14, 2017The spreading revelations of sexual harassment on the job have hit Capitol Hill, as lawmakers and aides step forward with revelations.
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