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Rural America

To Improve Rural Economy, USDA Will Give Out Millions in Loans and Grants

John Collins

Feature

In Cuba, Obama Articulated a Vision of History and Revolution that No Other President Ever Has

In a country in which political discourse rarely mentions race explicitly, Obama seemed to be saying to Cubans of African descent, I see you, and I understand your centrality in the past and future of your country.

Ada Ferrer

Feature

Why Your Water Could Be Worse Than Flint’s

Our nation's water crisis requires radical solutions.

Laura Orlando

Viewpoint

Obama’s Cuba Visit Reflects Shift of Cuban-Americans Away From the GOP

Younger Cuban Americans are radically departing from the political views of their elders

Achy Obejas

Feature

Donald Trump Really Doesn’t Like the First Amendment

Protesters against Trump aren't free speech opponents—Trump himself is.

Marc Daalder

Feature

How Montanans Stopped the Largest New Coal Mine in North America

People power and civil disobedience helped stop the Otter Creek mine in a huge victory for environmentalists and Montana communities.

Nick Engelfried

Feature

To Save the Soul of the Democratic Party, Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman Schultz Must Go

If Hillary Clinton wants to convince us she is a progressive, she should call for their resignations.

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Labor

A&P Supermarket Chain Stiffs 21,000 Pensioners, Government Will Pick Up $288 Million Tab

Bruce Vail

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Neocon War Hawks Want Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump. No Surprise—They’ve Always Backed Her

With Trump's impending nomination, neocons are reaffirming what they've always thought: Hillary Clinton's foreign policy is right up their alley.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

We Got the Whole World in Our Hands, E.O. Wilson Says We Should Give Half of it Back

Dayton Martindale

Comics

The Problem With Obama’s SCOTUS Pick

Matt Bors

Labor

Oakland Workers Join Grassroots Environmental Justice Activists To ‘Say No to Coal’

Eric K. Arnold

Labor

Over 1,000 LA Nurses Finish Weeklong Strike Today, Saying Work Conditions Are Dangerous for Patients

Mario Vasquez

Rural America

The Farm Bill Drove Me Insane: A Professor’s Attempt to Understand 357 Pages of Really Bad Policy

Marion Nestle

Viewpoint

Chicago Activists Should Be Commended, Not Scolded, for Shutting Down Donald Trump’s Rally

Peaceful resistance doesn’t egg on Trump’s supporters—it forces them to back down.

Marilyn Katz

Feature

Four Years Since a Chicago Police Officer Killed Rekia Boyd, Justice Still Hasn’t Been Served

Rekia is not forgotten. Her spirit lives in current organizing and protests in Chicago and around the country.

Mariame Kaba

Labor

It’s Time for the Labor Movement To Pursue a New Judicial Activist Agenda

Shaun Richman

Dispatch

These New Co-op Apps Show How to Build Worker Power In the Age of Uber

In the apps of the "platform cooperativism" movement, workers share in the profits

Tom Ladendorf