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Colin Allred Running Against Ted Cruz in Texas

…public. Nearly half an hour passed before the nine invited union representatives—mostly electrical workers and city bus drivers—finally shuffled into the hall and took their seats around the table. Allred,…

Train Drain

deregulated in 1980, freight railroads merged into a handful of giant monopolistic systems that became highly profitable. Those profits, plus the lack of regulation, in turn attracted financiers who over…