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Two pending measures in Tennessee reveal that there’s actually a good government interference.

100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, a disaster that claimed the lives of 146 workers and galvanized the labor movement, public workers in Wisconsin and around the country are standing up to the largest-scale attack on American workers in recent history. Using the economic crisis as a pretext, and with financing from billionaire businessmen, Governor Scott Walker and others are trying to strip public unions of their collective bargaining power. This debate is not about trying to balance state budgets. This debate is about the future of American labor.

Nightline’s teaser clip manages to make the man who would have opposed the Civil Rights Act mainstream.

Worst. Analogy. Ever.

The latest in a long line of victories for marriage equality.

New Pew survey adds more data to the Tea Party religion.

Papal consultant Edward N. Peters, who is also a professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, has stated in no uncertain terms that Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, should be shown no mercy. His offense? Seems that the governor has been shacking up—not with underage boys, mind you, but with his longtime partner, Sandra Lee. And as if that weren’t bad enough, Cuomo also supports same-sex marriage and believes that abortion is a private matter that shouldn’t be regulated by the state.

“Tell me what religion looks like.” “ This is what religion looks like!” So chanted the 75 religious leaders who marched into Wisconsin’s Capitol in Madison on Tuesday, February 22, in support of the state workers who are opposing Governor…