Employees and consumers fight back against “Black Friday,” which increasingly starts on the holiday itself.
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Wisconsin Dems off to a Fast Start
Activists gather more than 100,000 signatures in the first week of the campaign to recall Scott Walker.
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Busted in ‘Bama
Alabama’s anti-immigrant law nabs German Mercedes executive.
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Newt Gingrich Stumps for Good Ol’ Child Labor
Gingrich suggested that poor students work as janitors to learn responsibility.
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The Establishment Strikes Back
Occupy Weekly: The Establishment Strikes Back. This was the week that Occupy Wall Street faced its greatest pushback and pulled off its largest action yet. Sunday’s surprise police raid on Occupy Portland turned out to be one of several around the country, as mayors sent cops to clear occupations in cities including Chapel Hill, Salt […]
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Occupy Wall Street Day of Action Livestream
Follow the protest from the vantage point of a movement insider.
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Bending the Rules
Congress keeps finding new ways to attack farm-bill reform.
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Generation Y Bother
Young adults entering the workforce today think they’ll be worse off than their parents—they’re not wrong.
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Rosie the Riveter and the Ironies of Bentonville
When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas-funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation-one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era painting of Rosie the Riveter. The painting features a confident, insouciant Rosie on her […]
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Relief for Chicken Farmers
The USDA updates rules protecting small-livestock farmers from big business.