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Guatemala once more under “hard hand” after election runoff?

November 10, 2011 By Emile Schepers

The Patriotic Party's General Otto Perez Molina, the one with the hard hand, won with 53.7 percent over the execution-happy businessman.

Russell Pearce defeated, wake up call for anti-immigrant lawmakers

November 9, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

The powerful Republican state senator who authored Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant bill SB 1070, became the first sitting lawmaker in Arizona history to lose his seat in a recall election.

Big win for women in Mississippi, but downsides too

November 9, 2011 By Ryan C. Ebersole

The ambiguously worded and short-sighted proposal, if passed, could have had terrible consequences for Mississippi women and their families.

Cooper Union students fight to keep school tuition free

November 9, 2011 By Gabe Falsetta

The announcement by Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha that his institution may have to charge tuition has caught student, faculty and alumni off guard -but has solidly united them.

Ohio celebrates: Union-busting bill goes down by landslide

November 9, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Labor and community activists throughout Ohio jubilantly celebrated the massive defeat of Issue 2 and repeal of the draconian union-busting SB 5.