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We’re Public ... No, We’re Private
Charter school corporations take on public school teacher unions.
Michael Klonsky

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The Honduran Connection
The U.S. right, including Bush appointee Otto Reich, mobilizes to support the putsch.
Bill Weinberg

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Falling Through the Climate Gap
Poor Americans will suffer most from global warming.
Michelle Chen

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My Brother on Death Row
Troy Davis' sister speaks out, as Davis awaits a Supreme Court decision.
Alice Kim

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Home Sweet Skid Row
Poor Los Angelenos fight gentrification and police abuse.
David Wagner

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Iran on the Brink
Warning to the Persian cat: Don’t look down!
Slavoj Žižek

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Snapshot: No Place Like Home
Rachel K. Dooley

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Fighting the Cloud Factory
Marisol Becerra dreams of a clean neighborhood and world.
Kari Lydersen

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Death of the Newspaperman
Don't blame the Internet, the industry's decline is self-inflicted.
David Simon

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Can a Union Divided Stand?
UNITE HERE dissolves in conflict ... with a little help from SEIU.
David Moberg

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The Somalia Crossroads
Piracy and an insurgency tempt Washington to get it wrong--again.
William Minter and Daniel Volman

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The Legacy Lives On
The Republic Windows and Doors factory occupation in Chicago inspired a similar revolt halfway across the country.
Kari Lydersen

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Why Wal-Mart Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act
America's largest private employer has systematically harassed and fired pro-union workers.
Nelson Lichtenstein

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Auto Task Force Outsources Jobs
Obama's recovery plan steers GM and Chrysler in the wrong direction
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Roger Bybee

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Unraveling Afghanistan
A veteran correspondent details what's going wrong, and why.
George Kenney

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Skewed Debate
Strange bedfellows oppose single-payer healthcare reform.
Roger Bybee

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Shilling on the Corporate Dollar
Business-sponsored ‘scholars’ deliver anti-union talking points.
Art Levine

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Defense Budget Shell Game
Behind the hoopla, military spending continues to rise.
Frida Berrigan

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Battling Over Employee Free Choice
The fate of labor’s top legislative priority is in the Senate’s hands.
David Moberg

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Teabags vs. Douchebags
Why this may not be the second coming of the New Deal after all.
David Sirota

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Prairie Fire
A bitter labor conflict ultimately failed in Decatur, Ill., during the mid-'90s. But a new book argues that tactics developed there by locked-out workers strengthen today's labor movement.
Stephen K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking

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The Only Road Out of Crisis
Yes, it is socialism, but nationalize the banks already.
Joseph M. Schwartz

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Salt of the Earth
Bolivia extracts its lithium, environment be damned.
April Howard

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The Past and Future of Human Rights
Barack Obama could become America's first human rights president.
Julie A. Mertus
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