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Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic

May 12, 2020 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason

As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.

‘Planet of the Humans’: A documentary film of despair or hope?

May 11, 2020 By Len Yannielli

It’s disappointing that Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore would make such a low-quality documentary film.

Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments

May 11, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Trumka proposed the federal government guarantee paid employment – by actually shelling out the money – for all workers.

Right wing on the defensive in Arizona elections

May 11, 2020 By Joe Bernick

The GOP is terrified Arizona will flip to the Democrats in the 2020 elections, and they're taking advantage of COVID-19 to stop it from happening.

Asparagus getting more attention than U.S. nukes in Germany

May 11, 2020 By Victor Grossman

In late spring an age-old tradition places asparagus – the white kind preferred here – at the very top of German menus. But only until St. John’s Day, June 24th (the summer solstice).