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Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Architects

Amidst uproar over a new law threatening three clinics, a fourth was quietly shut down.

Robin Marty

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The Oil Industry Hits an Unexpected Roadblock

A small city in Maine strikes a blow against Canadian tar sands extraction.

Cole Stangler

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The Nanny University

Is the academy trigger-warning happy?

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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OUR Walmart Crashes the Party

What happens when you talk about workers' rights during a shareholders meeting?

Ethan Corey

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Smith’s Pronoun Problem

Students protest the school's admissions policies regarding trans women.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Judgment Day for Payday Lenders

Religious groups in the South fight a predatory practice.

Theo Anderson

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Why Can’t College Be Free?

Three proposals to reclaim the promise of higher education.

Rebecca Burns

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Ice I.C.E., Baby

Philly's landmark law to limit deportations.

Waleed Shahid

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Abortion’s Underground Railroad

As state laws restrict abortion access, volunteers are stepping up to help women clear the hurdles.

Eesha Pandit

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Cutting Power to the NSA

A civil liberties coalition wants to nullify the NSA, one lightbulb at a time.

Sarah Berlin

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A Boycott Today Keeps the Testing at Bay

A model Chicago alliance of teachers, students and parents is leading the way in a nationwide testing refusal movement

Yana Kunichoff

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What Cesar Chavez Missed

The new film doesn't capture the diversity of the farmworkers' movement.

David Bacon

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Can We Have More Jobs and Less Work?

In an age of overwork and unemployment, economists look at novel ways to solve both problems.

Jessica Stites

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Pittsburgh’s Nonprofit Pirates

A hospital behemoth dominates the city, pays no taxes and does little for its lowest-paid workers.

Rebecca Burns

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Village Of The Dammed

In Panama, the Ngäbe-Buglé fight to save their river and their land.

Lawrence Reichard

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West Virginia Community Delivers on Clean Water

A grassroots water delivery group filled in where government and relief agencies fell short.

Sarah Berlin

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Charter Schools: The Promise and the Peril

Two systems of public education go head-to-head in Chicago.

Joel Bleifuss

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Teachers’ Strikes, Catching Fire

From Oregon to Minnesota, school is out unless teachers and communities are heard.

Sarah Jaffe

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Keystone XL Gets Electoral

Green candidates are cropping up all over the 'red' state of Nebraska.

Cole Stangler

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Spaniards Say No to Privatized Healthcare

Nationwide outcry killed a proposal to privatize Madrid's hospitals.

Ana Martinez

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Keystone by the Bay

Labor and environmental groups clash in Maryland over fracking.

Rebecca Burns

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Stamp of Disapproval

Activists and union workers fight to stop the U.S. Postal Service from shedding buildings and jobs.

Theo Anderson

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For Once, Workers Win Over Walmart

Walmart has signed onto a contract that guarantees Floridian tomato pickers fair treatment.

Alex Wolff

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Legalization

Who benefits from marijuana law reform?

Rebecca Burns