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Orange Is the New Black Makes Other TV Look Quaint

The show is the first to take women this seriously.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Just Whose National Security?

The government's idea of protection seems awfully self-serving.

Noam Chomsky

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Mind the Gap, Inc.

Online organizers use a creative hoax to remind the corporation—and its customers—just who's suffering to produce its products.

Isabelle Nastasia

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Americans Pay the Price for Private Equity Firms’ Sins

When private equity firms illegally game the system, plutocrats aren't the only ones who suffer.

David Sirota

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UN Blast of U.S. Human Rights Record Goes Mostly Unnoticed

U.S. media outlets have largely ignored a UN report noting America's human rights violations.

Ana Martinez

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Italy’s Forgotten Refugees

The country's structural support systems are quaking under the sheer volume of immigrants seeking asylum.

Giorgio Ghiglione

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The U.S. Chamber of Secrets

Who's funding the Chamber of Commerce and its attacks on workers' rights groups? No one knows.

Mariya Strauss

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Should We Fight the System or Be the Change?

The strengths and weaknesses of prefigurative politics.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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Amara and Goliath

It's official: Rahm Emanuel has a challenger.

Kari Lydersen

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Just How Big Are CEOs’ Packages?

For the first time, corporations must calculate the difference between CEO pay and median worker pay.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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Will Cuomo Keep His Promises?

The Working Families Party went out on a limb when it endorsed the conservative Democrat.

Sarah Jaffe

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Yes, It’s Okay To Have a Metaphorical Rape in a Disney Movie

The problem with Maleficent isn't the dark themes.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Big Cable’s Almighty Dollar

Will Comcast's and Time Warner Cable's money outpace public objection to their potential merger? Stay tuned.

David Sirota

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Elliot Rodger Wasn’t Just a Murderer

The California gunman's actions weren't an aberration; they were the product of a misogynistic and racist society.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Eviction by ‘Rent-a-Cop’

An Illinois bill could 'privatize' evictions and pave the way for Wall Street abuses.

Rebecca Burns

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Bernie Sanders: The People’s President?

The Vermont senator on why he's mulling a run for the White House in 2016

Joel Bleifuss

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Mad Men, Season 7 Episode 7: Goodbye, Bert Cooper, You Otherworldly Elf

Man lands on the moon, Peggy lands a big pitch, and Sterling Cooper moves definitively from past to future.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Up the River

Why the West Virginia spill was not a freak occurrence.

Molly M. Ginty

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Two Ways Chris Christie Screwed Over Pensioners for GOP Donors

How the New Jersey governor spawned the shortfall.

David Sirota

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Run, Bernie, Run—But As What?

Dems, Greens, independents and socialists are courting Vermont’s junior senator.

Cole Stangler

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A Bipartisan Alliance That’s True As Steel

Dumped steel from abroad threatens thousands of American jobs.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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Taking on ‘Capital’ Without Marx

What Thomas Piketty misses in his critique of capitalism.

David Harvey

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Ode To America’s Freshwater People

On Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg, Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and other Midwesterners.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 6: Peggy and Don, Reunited (And It Feels So Good)

This was the kind of episode Mad Men fans live for.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle