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How an Ex-Felon Voting Bloc Could Shape Baltimore’s Election

44,000 newly eligible voters can make a real difference

Katie Rose Quandt

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The Bernie Sanders Campaign Is Electrifying New York Politics. Will It Be Enough to Win the Primary?

Inspired by Sanders, independent groups like "Team Bernie NYC" and "Harlem for Bernie" have been hitting the streets to engage voters

Ethan Corey

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Thanks to #BlackLivesMatter, Prosecutors Who Bungle Police Shooting Cases Face Tough Election Fights

While recognizing the limits of electoral politics, the movement has ousted two prosecutors--Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty--and has more in its sights

Jennifer Ball

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Understanding What Makes Donald Trump Voters Tick: Is It Just Racism?

In Trump's appeal, the Left seeks clues on winning back the white working-class.

Ian Haney López and Matt Morrison

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These New Co-op Apps Show How to Build Worker Power In the Age of Uber

In the apps of the "platform cooperativism" movement, workers share in the profits

Tom Ladendorf

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Hillary Clinton Suggested Breaking Up the Big Banks Won’t End Racism and Sexism. Is She Right?

Clinton's remark prompted a furious debate. Is there any truth to it—and why did she say it? Moe Tkacik and Amanda Marcotte debate.

Amanda Marcotte and Moe Tkacik

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The Power of Black Lives Matter Is About To Be Tested at the Polls in Chicago

Kim Foxx is promising real criminal justice reform—if she's able to unseat State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez on March 15.

Danette Frederique

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With the Threat of Climate Collapse, Is It Time to Embrace Survivalism?

Why it might be worth prepping for a post-doomsday scenario

Molly M. Ginty

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How to Pass Gun Control in the Sixth-Most-Gun-Owning State in America

A Missoula ordinance could provide a model for life-saving legislation in states where guns 'are a religion'

Gabriel Furshong

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The Novel Defense That Climate Change Activists Are Using in Court

Not guilty on grounds of planetary necessity

Justyna Bicz

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Is ‘Female Viagra’ Feminist?

A new drug divides the women’s health movement

Molly M. Ginty

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The Group of Artists That’s Winning Fair Pay By Targeting Nonprofits

Organizing artists can be like herding cats. That hasn't stopped WAGE from fighting for fair pay for art.

Tom Ladendorf

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New York’s ‘Carwasheros’ Push for Safer, Fairer Workplaces

Car washes are the 'wild, wild West" of workplace regulation. The Car Wash Accountability Act will improve that—if it is ever implemented

Jean Stevens

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Why Compton Students Are Suing Their Schools

Nine in 10 6th grade students in the area have witnessed or experienced a violent crime. Is trauma counseling part of their right to an equal education?

Ethan Corey

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These Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States

At last, real organizing for tuition-free college is taking off in America.

Rebecca Nathanson

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Free Speech In an Age of Campus Protest

How the media can work for, and against, the wave of anti-racist actions by students

Jill Hopke

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How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws

Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.

Jake Blumgart

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Fewer Police, Safer Communities?

The tension between safety from police and safety from crime

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations

It's up to the voters of Spokane, Washington.

Simon Davis-Cohen

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These Activists Are Trying To Solve the Housing Crisis—By Suing the Suburbs

Bay Area activists take a suburb to court, saying it refused to allow high-density housing

s.e. smith

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Asylum Seekers Face Kafkaesque Ordeal at U.S.-Mexico Border

Migrants have to choose between keeping their families together and finding safety.

John Washington

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From Hashtag to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter

Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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After a 24-Year Gap, Chicago’s South Side Gets a Trauma Center

The result of years of organizing, the center fills a need in a badly underserved area

Zac Weber

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The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped the Mayor’s Mansion

The action was a bid to draw attention to what the UN has called a violation of human rights

Lauren Gaynor