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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

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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