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A Different Path for Syria—and America’s Cities
Will U.S. diplomacy in Syria carve a new path towards peace at home and abroad?
Marilyn Katz
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5 Cities in a Neoliberal Takeover; 5 Cities in a Progressive Boom
Who holds the keys to the city of the future?
In These Times Editors
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A Company Town Becomes Our Town
How a town shadowed by Chevron built a vibrant movement to challenge corporate power.
Rebecca Burns
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A Union-Remade City
Labor is taking back New Haven. But can it put people back to work?
Jake Blumgart
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A Top-Down Urban Revolution
Will working people have any say in the new neoliberal city?
Amy Dean
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A New Direction For the Fed?
Yellen may be better than Larry Summers, but she's not the reformer the Fed needs.
David Moberg
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12 Nameless, Witless Women We Shall Miss
Goodbye, The Newsroom. Goodbye, The Newsroom’s rotating cast of yelled-at female characters.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Will Syria Re-Energize the Anti-Drone Movement?
Buoyed by the Syria outcome, anti-war groups are charging ahead.
Cole Stangler
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Let’s Get Visceral
Anti-abortion activists plan memorial services for unborn fetuses, complete with tiny coffins.
Robin Marty
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The False Logic of ‘Gun Freedom’
The real lessons of the NRA's victory in Colorado.
David Sirota
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The Progressive City on the Bay (And It’s Not Berkeley or S.F.)
An interview with the mayor of Richmond--a Green Party member who has been making corporations furious.
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
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Labor’s Makeover
Live from the AFL-CIO convention: Federation President Richard Trumka has a dream.
David Moberg
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 7: The Larry Problem
In which we finally bring ourselves to confront OITNB's least likable character.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Is There a Method to the Syrian Madness?
On radical-emancipatory movements and false rationales for war.
Slavoj Žižek
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How the Anti-War Movement Won the Hearts and Minds of the Public
A decade of protests paved the way for Americans to say 'no' to Syrian strikes.
Bernardine Dohrn
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Is the U.S. Enabling the Humanitarian Crisis in Colombia?
Millions remain displaced and war crimes are ongoing, but U.S. military aid keeps flowing.
Jeremy Kryt
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War, Interrupted
Peace advocates remain cautious as Obama signals diplomatic turn on Syria.
Cole Stangler
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New York A-Twitter with Reports of Voting Malfunctions
Last year, elections officials blamed Sandy. What's their excuse now?
Sarah Jaffe
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What Would a ‘Surgical Strike’ on Syria Really Look Like?
The only thing 'surgical' about an airstrike is the blood it leaves behind.
Roy Isacowitz
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The Three C’s: Capitalism, Cronyism and Corruption
It's a surprise to nobody but himself--Virginia's GOP governor faces scrutiny over the three C's.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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War With Syria? Not So Fast
As opposition builds in Congress, an international proposal to avoid bombing gains traction.
Cole Stangler
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‘Boots on the Ground’ in Syria?
War doesn’t dirty only one pair of shoes.
Daisy Hernández
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Sorkin’s Binders Full of (Incompetent) Women
The Newsroom relives Election Night 2012, minus the boring political stuff.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 3: The Final Word on OITNB (Oh, and Larry)
Does OITNB challenge the prison-industrial complex?
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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