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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

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Changing the Daley Routine

As a Chicago dynasty ends, progressives weigh their options.

David Moberg

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A New Blueprint for Change

A revived progressive program must be built year-round, at the local level.

Amy Dean

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What We Lost After We Won in 2008

An anti-war activist explains what the Democratic establishment fails to understand.

Marilyn Katz

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Upski Grows Up: No Bombs, Please

Activist and author Billy Wimsatt explains why the ‘burbs shouldn’t be bombed after all.

Maysan Haydar

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Cracking the Cancer Consensus

It is time to put prevention before profit.

Rachel Curtis

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Has Barbara Boxer Met Her Match?

California’s liberal senator draws conservative fire, progressive ire.

Christopher D. Cook

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Wooing the White Working Class

It’s not too late for Democrats to win back these crucial swing voters.

David Moberg

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Minding the Enthusiasm Gap

How progressive activists are working to get out the midterm vote.

Andrew Kaspar

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Stalking the Wild Potato

Peru, birthplace of the spud, struggles to protect its biodiversity.

G. Pascal Zachary

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Why a War With Iran Would Be Insane

The former deputy director of National Intelligence for Analysis talks about our options.

George Kenney

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Big High Country

Medical marijuana foments culture war in Montana.

Beau Hodai

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Midterm: Create Jobs, Contain Losses

Democrats need to embrace populism before it’s too late.

David Moberg

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Tea Party Confidential

How GOP insurgents borrow from the left to move America right.

Kate Zernike

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Tribes in Kenya Wage Water War

In the first skirmishes due to global warming, nomads fight for survival.

Nash Colundalur

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Barely a Teenager and Marked for Life

Federal law requiring juvenile sex offenders to register as predators for life does more harm than good

Caitlin Dickson

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Inside the World’s Deadliest City

Juarez’s anarchy cannot be separated from American policy and addictions, says journalist Charles Bowden

Jeremy Gantz

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It’s the Poverty, Stupid

The education reform debate is misdirected.

Roger Bybee