Features
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The Walmart Revolt
The New Year promises new strategies for old labor. MORE
By David Moberg
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Protest Tactics in a Warming World
What will it take to push back climate change? MORE
By Eric Moll
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Executioner-in-Chief
Obama’s drone attacks and the pathology of presidential power. MORE
By Elizabeth Sanders
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The War on Trafficking
Will California’s crackdown do more harm than good? MORE
By Rebecca Burns
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Corporate Death Star
Help fight the secretive, corporate-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership. MORE
By Jacob Marshall
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Chiquita Republic
United Fruit’s heir has again been linked to paramilitary abuses in Colombia. MORE
By James Bargent
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Solidarity After Sandy
Occupy steps up where traditional disaster relief fails. MORE
By Eric Murphy
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Supermax Showdown
AFSCME wants Illinois’ Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed. MORE
By Rebecca Burns
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Enemy of Rupert
An interview with independent media’s white knight, Craig Aaron MORE
By Kenneth Rapoza
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Truce or Dare in Colombia
Violence rages even as peace talks continue. MORE
By Jeremy Kryt
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Culture
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books
Catastrophiliacs
For some, the end of the world can’t come too soon. MORE
By Sasha Lilley
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Exit Signs
Blinded by Thrift Store Irony
It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation. MORE
By Chris Lehmann
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film
Twilight of the Twi-Hards
The triumph of Team Katniss. MORE
By Sady Doyle
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From the Old Country
Scroungers and Strivers
We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship. MORE
By Jane Miller
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Culture
In Defense of Sports
Why let capitalists have all the fun? MORE
By Bhaskar Sunkara
Columnists
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Views
Who’s Afraid of Homophobia?
The Associated Press’s decision to favor ‘anti-gay’ over ‘homophobic’ isn’t as bad as some say. MORE
By Achy Obejas
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The First Stone
Gold Diggers and Indians
Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin’s buried gold, but the Anishinaabe aren’t having it. MORE
By Joel Bleifuss