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Wooing the White Working Class
It’s not too late for Democrats to win back these crucial swing voters.
November 2010
COVER STORY
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Minding the Enthusiasm Gap
How progressive activists are working to get out the midterm vote.
Features
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Has Barbara Boxer Met Her Match?
California’s liberal senator draws conservative fire, progressive ire.
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Cracking the Cancer Consensus
It is time to put prevention before profit.
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Upski Grows Up: No Bombs, Please
Activist and author Billy Wimsatt explains why the ‘burbs shouldn’t be bombed after all.
Act Locally
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In Vermont, Shades of McCarthy
The state's Republican candidate for governor waves a bogus list—but this time the enemies are prisoners, not communists.
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Targeting Soft Money
A retailer’s foray into electoral politics could help fuel campaign-finance reform.
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The Truth About Civil Servants
The shiftless paperpusher fattened on your tax dollars doesn't really exist.
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Excommunicated Over Abortion
A nun's decision to save a life angers a U.S. bishop.
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Dear ITT Ideologist: Iran’s Mercurial Mullahs and the Dismal Science
Dear ITT Ideologist, My morning news show has been headlining Lady Gaga's brisket beret and Lindsay Lohan's toot... more
culture
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Culture
The Surreal World
Class anxiety, hyperconsumption and mocking the poor, for your viewing pleasure.
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film
Reading Gandhi in Budrus
A new documentary illuminates the power of nonviolent protest in a Palestinian village opposing the West Bank barrier.
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books
Eight Myths of Justice
Innocent Americans are routinely convicted and incarcerated. The new book False Justice explains how.
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Culture
Hull-House Museum: Open to the Counter-Public
The revolution lives at Jane Addams' historic old house in Chicago.
Columnists
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Views
The Rot of D’Souza’s Rant
For the past 30 years, Dinesh D'Souza has fought against virtually every demand for social and racial justice that... more
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Back Talk
Democrats and the Anger Gap
Every election season seems to bring forth a catch phrase characterizing the electorate that is, invariably, a mischaracterization... more
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Coal Ash: The Glowing National Security Threat
Like the proverbial broken clock, the nuclear industry is occasionally right, as when it charges that a coal... more

