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A Privatized River Runs Through It

To win its eminent domain suit, Missoula must prove that it is the best manager of its drinking water.

Kate Whittle

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Don’t Cry for Chicago, Progressives

Mayor 1% wasn’t the only winner in April.

Micah Uetricht

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Yoopers Have Road Rage

Michiganders are up in arms about a proposed mining road

Kari Lydersen

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Could Elizabeth Warren Really Run Against Hillary Clinton?

Some are holding out for a progressive alternative to a Clinton coronation.

Jessica Stites

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America’s Tween Soldiers

Middle schoolers: Uncle Sam wants you

Seth Kershner

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Harvard Feels the Heat on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

It's not Al Gore's movement anymore. Student activists are bringing a new militancy to the fight against climate change.

Kate Aronoff

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Is There Anything Wrong with GMOs?

Monsanto is malevolent, but some scientists say Frankenfoods can do good.

Molly Bennet

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Tending Dixie’s Racial Wounds

Does a story-sharing program offer a chance at Southern reconciliation?

Theo Anderson

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Why One Community Voted to Tax Itself

Public mental healthcare has been gutted in the past 50 years. An innovative Illinois law may provide an answer.

Anne-Marie Cusac

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Chomsky, Lears and Elia Debate Whether an Academic Boycott of Israel Can Work

Is the tactic the best way to pressure Israel?

Joel Bleifuss

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Meet the Radical Brownies

A Oakland girls' troop is inspired by the Girl Scouts ... and the Brown Berets.

Aviana Willis

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The Women Behind Black Lives Matter

The 'leaderless' movement is being propelled by the efforts of women of color.

Kendra Pierre-Louis

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Community College in the Crosshairs

Even as Obama is calling for free community college, California's landmark system is under attack by accreditors allied with ALEC and for-profit schools.

Rebecca Burns

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Police Body Cams: Solution or Scam?

Debating the technophiles’ favorite fix for police violence

Osita Nwanevu

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A New Strategy To Make the Banks Pay

Youngstown, Ohio, may have found the cure to the national plague of abandoned properties.

Laura Gottesdiener

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Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?

Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.

Danny Postel

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Is Gentrification Inevitable?

Some activists are trying to beat back the tide of the market.

Yana Kunichoff

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Baltimore Teens Take Out the Trash

Youth battle a waste incinerator.

Bruce Vail

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For the Majority of Undocumented Immigrants Who Remain in the Shadows, Churches Offer Sanctuary

6 million undocumented immigrants won’t receive relief under Obama’s executive action. Some churches are providing them with hope.

Kevin Solari

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Terkel’s Torch-Bearers

Meet the new generation of oral historians.

Theo Anderson

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Pulling the Plug on Corporate Personhood

Citizens United prompted cries for a constitutional amendment. But how to amend?

Rob Richie

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The Black-Brown Alliance That’s Turning Kansas Blue

Why is Pat Roberts running for his life in the Kochs' home state? Ask community organizers.

Sam Ross-Brown

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Activist Pressure Keeps Walgreen’s HQ—And Nearly $4 Billion in Taxes—In U.S.

Thanks to activists, Walgreens execs cancel their Switzerland-bound flights.

Dan Staggs

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Chicago’s Cop Watchers

Youth stand up to police violence.

Kari Lydersen