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How three decades of technological change, globalization, and government policy made workers more at the mercy of concentrated capital.

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The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

Blue states have the power to change liberalism and block conservatism. They just have to use it.

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