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EPA Urged to Put Public Health Over Monsanto Profits by Banning Cancer-Linked Glyphosate

At #WayfairWalkout Actions, Workers Denounce Company Profiting From Child Detention

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

A Wayfair employee speaks to the crowd during the Wayfair walkout in Copley Square on June 26, 2019 in Boston. Wayfair sold more than $200,000 in bedroom furniture to a Texas detention facility for migrant children.

"The safety and well-being of immigrant children is always worth fighting for."

Progressives Denounce Export-Import Bank's Support for Fossil Fuel Industry as Congress Debates Reauthorization

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Every coal power plant the Export-Import Bank props up brings us that much...

With New 'Imposed Contract,' Trump's EPA Tries to Neuter Worker Rights

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington, D.C.

Agency announces new collective bargaining agreement—which was not agreed upon

Benefits for All or Just Some? Sanders Student Debt Plan Highlights 2020 Debate Over Universal vs. Means-Tested Programs

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'It is a Stain on Our Country': Warren Joins Protest Outside Child Detention Facility in Florida

Iraqi President: US Has No Right to Use Iraq as 'Staging Post' for Attack on Iran

'Shocking Blow to the Queens Democratic Machine' as Progressive Tiffany Cabán Declares Victory in District Attorney Race

'The Horrendous Truth': Images of Father and Daughter Who Drowned Seeking Refuge in US Spark Sorrow and Outrage

'I Think He's Not the Pragmatic Choice': AOC Joins Other Critics of Biden Ahead of Democratic Debate

After Demanding 'Human Decency, Plain and Simple,' Highlights Magazine Commended for Powerful Rebuke of Trump's Abuse of Children

Warren Wins Praise for Plan to End 'Rigged Game' Plaguing US Elections by Expanding Voting Rights and Improving Security

'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like,' Says Ocasio-Cortez, as Wayfair Workers Vow Walkout to Protest Company for Working With Child Detention Centers

'Business as Usual Is a Death Sentence': Hundreds Sit In at DNC Headquarters to Demand 2020 Debate on Climate Crisis

As Border Chief John Sanders Resigns, Demands for Trump Officials to Be Held to Account for 'Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse'

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With the Tired and Hungry and Scared

After Oscar Alberto Martínez and his daughter Angie and the rest - it turns out they were just two of dozens who've died in the Rio Grande this year thanks to state-sponsored barbarism - we took a truth and beauty break with Willie Nelson. At 86, the great troubadour just released a lovely, mournful video with the song, "Immigrant Eyes," on his new album "Ride Me Back Home." "W hen I looked in my grandfather's immigrant eyes/ I saw started with nothing and working hard all his life."