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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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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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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