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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
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Policing After Ferguson
Can we stop the brutality?
Jessica Stites
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New Hampshire Rebellion
Activists march for campaign-finance reform in the Granite State.
Theo Anderson
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Foam Wasn’t Built in a Day
Eco-activists of all ages are working to banish styrofoam.
Molly M. Ginty
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The New Volkswagen Model: Minority Unionism
Will the UAW’s latest experiment in Chattanooga pan out?
Moshe Z. Marvit
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Sandwich Artists Unionize
Subway workers in New Jersey get organized.
William A. Hudson
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A RAD-ical Housing Experiment
Baltimore public housing tenants will serve as guinea pigs for a new national privatization plan.
Rebecca Burns
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