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Tea party tries to save one of its own in Illinois

October 1, 2012 By John Bachtell

Right-wing groups are pouring more than $1 million to support the reelection campaign of Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill.

“Adios Arpaio” campaign heats up in Arizona

October 1, 2012 By Joe Bernick

The notoriously racist Tea Party darling likes to call himself "the toughest sheriff in the country," but it seems he is afraid to openly debate his main opponent.

Unions back universities in race and admissions Supreme Court case

September 28, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Declaring that, still, "race matters" in schools and society, unionsare siding with top universities in a U.S. Supreme Court case on the role of race in college admissions.

U.S. gun culture diagnosed as a social disease

September 25, 2012 By Albert Bender

In the wake of the two mass shootings this summer, some American physicians consider this country's gun violence a social disease.

Today in labor history: Eisenhower enforces racial integration in Little Rock

September 24, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Orval Faubus tried to prevent schools in Little Rock from integrating, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of public schools three years prior.