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A Campaign of Ones Own

Connie Schultz talks about her column, feminism, endorsing Hillary, and her lovely husband, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown

Chelsea Ross

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Merc is the New Crack

America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq

Lindsay Beyerstein

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Tobacco Stains

The global footprint of a deadly crop

Bryan Farrell

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Floating Utopias

On the degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders.

China Mieville

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An Unholy Alliance

Across the Deep South, religion, culture and politics collide to make 'abortion' a dirty word.

Carrie Kilman

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Unionbusting Confidential

To keep out organized labor, you need the union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis

Art Levine

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Holy Toyland

The mega toy retailer, Wal-Mart- is now selling Biblical toys like the talking Jesus

Stephen T. Asma

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Training Satellites on the United States

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies

Lindsay Beyerstein

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Obama’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Can the junior senator from Illinois be both a stalwart progressive and a post-ideological unifier?

David Moberg

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Trending Toward Inanity

Mark Penn's new book, Microtrends, is so epically awful that it could take the entire polling industry down with it

Ezra Klein

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Who Does U.S. Food Aid Benefit?

Current policies favor giant shipping companies and agribusinesses over the starving populations they are supposed to serve

Megan Tady

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On Strike Without a Union

Cygnus employees prove they are a 'pea that weighs a pound'

Kari Lydersen

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A Freegan World

Hundreds of urban activists, combining the words "free" and "vegan" have set out to change the way we think and act

Sergio Burns

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Scorned on the Bayou

Louisianans fear a new plan to restore costal wetlands could destroy their way of life

Melinda Tuhus

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Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom

Educators are taking steps to bring union history into American schools

Adam Doster

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Creating the 21st Century Library

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain"

Aaron Sarver

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Extending Tours, Stressing Troops

Despite a growing body of medical research, the Pentagon is extending tours of duty to their longest levels since World War II, precipitating the first time in history that active-duty soldiers will spend more time in combat than at home

Sarah Olson

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The Trial (And Errors) of Hugo Chávez

Venezuelans are debating whether Chávez is putting the windfall of revenue from oil revenues to good use or squandering it through disorganization, corruption and misplaced priorities

Steve Ellner

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Farming the Concrete Jungle

In cities across the country urban farmers are growing communities, greening the landscape and revolutionizing food politics.

Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross

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Perverse Justice

Jose Padilla’s conviction raises questions about whether detainees who undergo extreme isolation can be given fair trials

Lindsay Beyerstein

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In Condemnation of Opting In

Our voices are being drowned out by our peers in the supposedly independent media, like Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, who calls Starbucks "the new record store," and music journalists like the Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer, who argued in a piece called "In Praise of Selling Out" that the music industry's decline can be "rescued by corporations that make everything but music"

Anne Elizabeth Moore

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Palestinians in Iraq Face a Second Exile

Threatened in Iraq, these refugees have no country to return to.

Robert S. Eshelman

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Risking Everything for Europe

Industrial fishing off the African coast ruins livelihoods and sends fishermen on a perilous journey across desert and sea.

Hans Lucht

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Equating Stillbirths with Murders

Just how legally viable is Maryland's Viable Fetus Act?

Lindsay Beyerstein