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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 5: Daddy Issues Strike Again

Dana's dating another killer? Stop us if you've heard this one before.

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The Children Left Behind

What happened to the students pushed out by high-stakes testing?

Debbie Nathan

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The ‘Economic Persecution’ Myth: No Need To Weep for the Wealthy

Research shows that taxing millionaires won't drive them away.

David Sirota

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Social Democracy in the South

Bernie Sanders talks about economic justice—and the possibility of a presidential run—on a three-day road trip.

Cole Stangler

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No More City on a Hill

San Francisco isn't some carefree utopia for queer people, says trans activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Yasmin Nair

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Shooting America in the Foot

Republicans wounded the country--and their party--with their failed gambit to defund the Affordable Care Act.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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A Case for Couch Potato Feminism

An art exhibit meant to provoke face-to-face feminist dialogue disappoints.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Invisible Injury

Victims of war crimes often suffer PTSD. What do the perpetrators feel?

Jeff Severns Guntzel and Andy Warner (illustrator)

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 4: Twist and Shout

The reason behind Saul's reprehensible behavior is revealed ... to make no sense whatsoever.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The New Populists

Can Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown revive bank reform?

Sarah Jaffe

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Mayor of the 1%

A new book explains why 'Rahm Emanuel' is a dirty word in many Chicago circles.

Nick Burt

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Serious Heterosexual Guys, Make Way for Munro

Alice Munro’s Nobel victory signifies a changing view of literature.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Return to Nixonland

How the NSA slipped its leash under Bush and Obama.

Lisa Graves

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Orange Is the New Black, Season 1 Finale: No More Ms. Nice Blonde Lady

The show we didn't see coming socks us in the teeth.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The War on Pensions Goes Federal

Congress could apply a 'haircut' to previously sacrosanct pensions.

Cole Stangler

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Why the Tea Party Loves Medicare but Hates Obamacare

How the GOP and the Koch brothers took advantage of the Tea Party's confused populism.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Way Down in the Hole (Again)

Brody has bad luck with foreign countries and holes.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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‘FDR Democrat’ Vies for Congressional Seat

In a five-way Democratic race in Massachusetts, Carl Sciortino is jockeying for leftmost.

Cole Stangler

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Unintended Conquerors

Yossi Klein Halevi's new book Like Dreamers speaks with rare clarity on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Louis Nayman

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Gravity: A Giant Leap for Film, and a Step for Womankind

The film currently blowing up box offices is, essentially, a one-woman show.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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A Penchant For Pension Cutting

The so-called pension crisis diverts attention from the real money drain: corporate welfare.

David Sirota

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s the Labor Movement!

Want to teach younger people about organizing? Try comic books.

Paul Buhle

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Who Is John Galt? Now We Know!

On financial meltdowns and government shutdowns.

Slavoj Žižek

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The Obama Doctrine

What American exceptionalism and isolationism share.

Noam Chomsky