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Overriding Bloomberg’s Vetoes, New York City Council Bans NYPD Racial Profiling
Stop-and-frisk is dealt the second serious blow in as many weeks, and this one may be even more significant.
Sarah Jaffe
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Tar Sands Drones Are On Their Way
The energy industry wants to use unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor pipelines.
Cole Stangler
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Ready, Willing and Disabled
Will the new fall TV shows succeed in depicting disabilities honestly?
Diane Shipley
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Orange is the New Black, Episode 5: Chasing That Chicken
The Litchfield women chase after a legendary chicken, while Daya and Aleida fail to understand one another
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Young Tea Party ‘Rebels’ Burn Fake ‘Obamacare Cards’
A well-funded Tea Party think tank hopes to convince 3 million young people to forgo subsidized health insurance.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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Moderate to the Bone
In The Newsroom's universe, the Left is just as deserving of Will MacAvoy's righteous scorn as the Right.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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From Hope to Disposability
50 years after the March on Washington, we are living with the civil rights movement’s defeats.
Martha Biondi
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The Drone Boom
A report from the unmanned systems industry convention, where everyone's upbeat (just don’t say ‘drone’).
Cole Stangler
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A Verdict on Racial Profiling?
A judge has ruled stop-and-frisk unconstitutional and racist. But will it stop?
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Orwell’s Defeats
A new book of letters offers a glimpse at the man behind the reputation.
Kristian Williams
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Our Gilded Age Education System
The ongoing education debate has little to do with schools and everything to do with money.
David Sirota
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Class Wars in Space
Elysium tackles the important issues of our time with the subtlety of an evil robot with a sledgehammer.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 4: Prison Isn’t a Pause Button
Piper's old life recedes, and a much richer world emerges.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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MBAs Without Borders
Will a backroom trade deal let the corporate class skip the immigration line?
Cole Stangler
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Non-Profits Take To the Air
New FCC rules will enable hundreds of community organizations to apply for FM licenses.
Cole Stangler
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Supersize Those Wages, McDonald’s
McDonald's meager wages hurt taxpayers as well as workers.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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John Lewis’ Advice for Young Activists: March
In a new graphic memoir, the civil rights leader shows youth how to get in trouble--good trouble.
Sarah Jaffe
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Attack of the Tweeting Women
In Episode 5, Sorkin tackles topics (feminism, the Internet) that The Newsroom should never, ever touch.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Freedom in the Cloud
Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.
Slavoj Žižek
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Opting for Free Time
Something’s missing from the work/life balance debate.
Sarah Jaffe
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Is There Detroit After Bankruptcy?
Why shock therapy won't reverse the Motor City's decline.
Ryan Felton
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The Free Market Backfires
What happens when the private insurance industry contradicts right-wing talking points?
David Sirota
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The Next Keystone XL?
With TransCanada's tar sands megaproject, a new front opens in North America's pipeline wars.
Cole Stangler
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Why Hillary Terrifies the GOP
Good old-fashioned misogyny just doesn't play the way it used to.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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