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Home Is Where the Fight Is

City Life/Vida Urbana is on the frontlines of the foreclosure crisis.

Micah Uetricht

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Still Separate, Still Unequal

How our reverence for diversity and multiculturalism helps perpetuate inequality

John M. Davis

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Art for Our Sake: Lessons From Hull-House

Poets, artists, writers help us imagine solidarity and re-make the world.

Lisa Yun Lee

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As Labor Goes, So Goes the Nation

Unions once united workers across gender and racial boundaries. Their decline imperils modern American liberalism.

Melvyn Dubofsky

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Sanctuary Denied

America's war deserters face deportation from Canada--and then prison.

Roman Goergen

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A Black Radical’s Notebook

A new book makes Detroit 'revolutionist' James Boggs' long career accessible to current activists remaking the Motor City.

Paul Abowd

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Anti-Austerity Alliance Wins in Illinois

A 300-member coalition helps raise taxes to save essential services.

David Moberg

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Marco Rubio’s Prison Problem

As the FBI investigates $120 million in subsidies for a new private prison in Florida, the new U.S. senator could end up in the hot seat over close ties to prison operator Geo Group.

Beau Hodai

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A Kinder, Gentler, Bisexual Great Ape

Dominique Morel's quest to save the bonobo.

Alexandra Markowski

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Glenn Beck’s American Ark

The ubiquitous Fox News host offers followers an old-time apocalyptic vision

Theo Anderson

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5 Things Progressives Should Do—and Not Do

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Beyond Barack Obama

Lefty focusing on the president and his shortcomings distracts us from the work we need to do.

Richard Flacks

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Organizing Help Wanted

We must defend America's middle class before millionaires and billionaires own the entire country.

Bernie Sanders

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Lead or Be Left Behind

President Obama and Congress have moved to the Right. Progressives need an offensive strategy before it's too late.

David Moberg

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Cuba Goes Both Ways on Gay Rights

United Nations vote opens room for dissent

Achy Obejas

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The Known Unknowns in Honduras

Leaked cables reveal U.S. government knowledge of disastrous military coup.

Jeremy Kryt

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An Idiotic Requiem

American Idiot, a punk rock musical currently running on Broadway, gives voice to the country's deepest anxieties.

Christopher Shinn and Jarrett Dapier

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A Three-Point Plan to Save Democrats

The party must reconnect to its populist roots.

Roger Bybee

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Your Holiday Guide to Deficit Reduction

10 ways to pleasure your base while (maybe) saving some cash.

David Moberg

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Terrorist by Association

The Justice Department targets nonviolent solidarity activists.

Jeremy Gantz

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Notes from the Moral Underground

How and why Americans are subverting their economy.

Andrew Oxford

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A Wasted Crisis

How the environmental movement missed the moment on climate change.

Eric Weltman

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Chicago’s Other Community Organizer

Rep. Jan Schakowsky wants to solve the deficit crisis without soaking the lower- and middle-class.

David Moberg

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China’s New Lost Generation

Dissidents struggle against state-induced historical amnesia.

Ryszard Gorky