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Can Climate Change Unite the Left?
To avoid catastrophe, we must seize corporate polluters' wealth. And to do that, we must change everything.
Naomi Klein
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As Ferguson ‘Weekend of Resistance’ Begins, Organizers Weigh How to Turn a Moment into a Movement
With thousands descending on Ferguson today to demand justice for Michael Brown, a creator of #BlackLivesMatter thinks now may be the time to win long-term victories.
Julia Wong
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Big Brother Is Watching You—Through Your Metadata
Your personal information may seem to be anonymous, but it isn't.
David Sirota
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Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do—It’s Good Economics
The median net worth of white families is 9.5 times more than Hispanic families and 12 times more than black families. And the gap has scarcely narrowed in half a century.
Solana Rice and Lillian Singh
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Home Care in Crisis
Everyone agrees the answer to the critical shortage of caregivers is good jobs. But how do we get there?
Kathryn Joyce
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Jesse Jackson Keeps Pushing
30 years after his first presidential run, Jackson talks Obama, Civil Rights and the black vote.
Joel Bleifuss
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Economic Inequality is Much Worse Than Most Americans Believe
According to a recent study, most of us severely underestimate just how bad the gap between the rich and the rest of us have gotten.
David Sirota
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Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great
Progressives should admit it: We like abortion.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course
Israel's brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like "mowing the lawn" will persist without a change in U.S. policy.
Noam Chomsky
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Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years
Chicago's notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds.
Flint Taylor
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White Politicians Still Run the Show in Heavily-Black Towns
Large numbers of African Americans are moving into towns and suburbs, yet their representation in the political system remains weak.
Terrell Jermaine Starr, Alternet
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7 Politicians Who Are Actually Talking About Inequality
A few lone voices in Congress are putting economic populism front and center.
David Moberg
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It’s the Inequality, Stupid
How to frame the 'defining challenge of our time.'
David Moberg
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Failing the Midterms
The Democrats can't win by cutting class.
Chris Lehmann
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Hedge Funds: Fantastic for Wall Street, Horrible for Your Pension
Private equity and hedge funds constantly lose money. So why are taxpayers' money being poured into them?
David Sirota
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Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections
The GOP says yet again that control of our political system by the ultra-rich is just fine, thank you.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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Who Killed Adulthood?
Feminism stands wrongly accused.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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From Watts to Ferguson
The riot is still 'the language of the unheard.'
Rick Perlstein
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Hundreds of Thousands of Climate Marchers Make History
Sunday's climate change protest in New York was bigger than the 1963 March on Washington. What's next?
Cole Stangler
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Naomi Klein’s New Book Is a Manual for a Movement
This Changes Everything argues that only grassroots movements, not politicians or the 1%, can prevent climate disaster.
Cole Stangler
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Is Obama Going Easy On Banks That Break the Law?
Credit Suisse employees have donated more than $376,000 to President Obama—is he repaying the favor?
David Sirota
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Naomi Klein: ‘We Can’t Dodge This Fight’ Between Capitalism and Climate Change
The author explains why right-wing climate-change deniers are more right than you think.
Micah Uetricht
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Shareholders Say, ‘Show Me The Money’
A new rule could require companies to disclose information long requested by their shareholders.
David Sirota
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Janay Rice and the Problem with Trauma Voyeurism
Women's bodies, and the pain inflicted on them, are still regarded as public property.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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