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A Tale of Two Supermen

For better or worse, our American Idiocracy has come to rely on athletes as national pedagogues. Michael Jordan educated… more

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Ten Years After Seattle

The global justice movement evolves.

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Women Reach a Breaking Point

How tired are you of seeing a tiny minority of wingnut Americans--"birthers," "teabaggers," Obama-haters--get so much coverage in the… more

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The Right Battles a Mighty Acorn

The right is trying to undermine one of the left's most effective groups, Acorn, using film clips of the… more

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Sold to the United States for Cash

In May, President Barack Obama began floating the idea that his administration might seek the power to "preventatively detain"… more

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Chronically Displaced in NOLA

Four years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the disaster continues.

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Live Free, Die Free

The Final Exit Network, a right-to-die organization, battles government euthanasia accusations.

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Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

As Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's posthumous infamy turns 10 on April 20, I wish I were surprised that… more

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Do-It-Yourself Governance

Without new social movements, there will be no new New Deal.

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All-Consuming Poverty

The upside of the current depression is that Wall Street greed and Washington corruption show as starkly as blood… more

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You Say You Want a Revolution

A founding member of the Weather Underground looks back at an organization unable to come to terms with its own violence.

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Detroit: City of Hope

Building a sustainable economy out of the ashes of industry.

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Unequal Education

No Child Left Behind demands equal test scores from neighborhoods with unequal incomes and resources.

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In Mexico, Resistance is Futile

John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.

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The Failed Prophet

As Wall Street collapses, so does Milton Friedman’s legacy.

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This Land Is Their Land

The Landless Workers Movement claims a big victory in southern Brazil.

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The Truth Machine

Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?

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Offline Youth Struggle in Online World

Antonio Reyes and Julian Rosas grew up together in California's San Fernando Valley. Now 17 and seniors in high… more

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McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces

Is John McCain stupid, or does he believe we are? That's the question as he criticizes Barack Obama for… more

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Internationalism and the Progressive Movement

One of the finest traditions of the American left has been its historic commitment to solidarity with the oppressed… more

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No Jobs Make Mean Streets

As urban economies collapse, gun violence rises

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Homeless Court Advantage

35 courts across the country are dedicated to hearing charges against the homeless

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A People’s Historian of Sports

It's easy to see sports today as nothing more than an escapist distraction, an uncomfortable marriage of commercialism and… more

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‘If the Detainee Dies, You’re Doing it Wrong

When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of harsh techniques, he did so over the objections of senior military attorneys from all branches of the armed services

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ICE Cold to Kids

At 10 a.m. on May 12, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on a meat processing plant in… more

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Stay Classy, Huckabee

"The uncool subject is class," author Bell Hooks once wrote. "It's the subject that makes us all tense." What… more

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Hanging Hate

Backlash against the Jena Six case sparks an epidemic of public nooses

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Jena and the Post-Civil Rights Fallacy

Around the country, black males face a criminal justice system that incarcerates them more than eight times the rate of whites

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A Mother’s March For Justice

Jena Six mother Tina Jones talks about clearing the reputation of her son Bryant Purvis

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Feeding the Hungry is a Crime

City councils are cracking down on charity groups that feed the homeless without a permit

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Floating Utopias

The degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders

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The Secret Lives of Plutocrats

In Richistan, Robert Frank offers a breezy, well-observed peek into this gated community. You too could visit if you graduate from "butler boot camp" and become a $120,000-a-year "household manager"

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America’s Child Soldier Problem

Congratulations: You have lived long enough to cringe at the bad decisions you were seduced, dared, bullied, inspired or… more

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Gone, But Not Forgotten

Why Bolivians want the United States to extradite their exiled ex-president

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Preaching Revolution

A new evangelical movement offers lessons for the left

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Reclaiming What Makes Us Human

Through the ages, the killjoys of governing elites have been threatened by public expressions of collective joy

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White Progressives Don’t Get It

Rinku Sen argues that progressives who write policy without racial justice goals fail because they can risk deepening inequalities while only superficially being universal.

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Witnessing Extraordinary Rendition

Nonprofit organization Witness uses video like the new film Outlawed, to document human rights abuses worldwide.

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Farrakhan Steps Back

Farrakhan's failing health causes the Nation of Islam to look to the future.

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Oaxaca in Crisis

Just as the teacher's strike in Oaxaca appeared ready to end, paramilitary violence breaks out.

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