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We Need an Essential Workers Bill of Rights

Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.

The federal government owns 92 percent of all student debt owed in this country. Canceling it could provide a huge stimulus.

More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony.

For years, the Department of Agriculture has been run by Big Ag acolytes. Biden has a chance to change that.

The collapse of child care and traditional schooling is having a devastating effect on women in particular.

Not even a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.

In red and blue states alike, every legalization measure on the ballot this year won with big margins.

Billionaires are letting their money make money for them, while CEOs slash jobs and reward themselves with bonuses.

The president came to Iowa bragging about his jobs record, but he didn’t lift a finger when my 150-year-old plant closed.

High-end financial firms are warning their top 1 percent clients that their extraordinary tax privileges could soon end.