In the fall of 1942, the prolific novelist and journalist Upton Sinclair was at his wits’ end. Sinclair — the author of “The Jungle,” the turn-of-the-century novel whose visceral descriptions of ...

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Residents of Los Angeles have filed a lawsuit against the city challenging what civil rights advocates describe as an illegal plan to seize and destroy RV homes, the ACLU announced in a release this ...

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