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Kroger closes grocery stores to avoid COVID hazard pay for workers
March 11, 2021One of the most profitable corporations in the United States is threatening grocery workers’ jobs in response to a new coronavirus-era hazard pay requirement.
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Biden’s Korea deal continues a dangerous U.S. foreign policy
March 11, 2021The president’s progressive domestic policy is not at all well served by catering to corporate interests that see China as a threat.
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African-American playwright August Wilson honored on ‘forever’ stamp
March 11, 2021The 44th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors playwright August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), the “the theater’s poet of Black America,” who brought fresh perspectives and previously unheard voices to the American stage....
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Portugal’s Communists know how to party—and how to govern
March 10, 2021On their 100th anniversary, Portugal’s Communists are still showing that to be “for the people,” you’ve got to be “with the people.”
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Abandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus
March 10, 2021Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the...
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