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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
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 11: Toys for Tots
Everyone in Litchfield just keeps making the same mistakes.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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The New AFL-CIO
The federation has four new strategies to create a ‘new working-class movement.’ Will they work?
David Moberg
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The Grumpy Obstructionist Party
It's time for Dems to turn the tables.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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When Plan ‘B’ Stands for ‘Barriers’
Many rural Kentucky pharmacies are still limiting access to the emergency contraceptive, FDA rulings be damned.
April Corbin
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