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Lone Star Uprising: Texas is Turning Blue. But There’s a Lot More to the Story Than That.

Demographic changes are transforming the state’s economy, creating serious challenges to its economic prowess.

Theo Anderson

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Affordable Housing is Vanishing. These Ballot Initiatives Could Help Stem the Crisis.

This November, voters in cities including Baltimore, San Francisco and LA will decide on measures that could fund more affordable units and improve services for the homeless.

Rachel M. Cohen

Labor

Think Democrats Take Labor’s Money and Loyalty for Granted? Here’s Proof.

Micah Uetricht

Labor

A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Clinton Campaign’s Calculated Decision to Oppose the TPP

Branko Marcetic

Labor

New U.N. Report Shows Just How Awful Globalization and Informal Employment Are for Workers

Elizabeth Grossman

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Donald Trump’s Energy Adviser Doesn’t Know How Electricity Works

And other takeaways from yesterday's debate between Clinton and Trump’s energy advisers.

Kate Aronoff

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Remembering Tom Hayden (1939-2016): My Friend and a Lifelong Change Maker

The activist and lawmaker leaves behind a life worth studying.

Richard Flacks

Labor

Beyond the Fight for 15: The Worker-led Fast Food Union Campaign Building Power on the Shop Floor

Arun Gupta

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Voices from the Movement for Native Lives

Advocates talk about the country's "silent, comfortable genocide."

Stephanie Woodard

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In “Fleabag,” TV Finally Gives Us a Female Anti-Hero to Love

The six-part British series shows us a self-destructive, bitter, angry young woman and trusts that we will care about her pain.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Luxury of Opting Out of This Election

People whose livelihoods can turn with an election can't afford to wait for a third party to rescue them.

James Thindwa

Labor

Leaks Show Machinists’ Union President Secretly Moved Up Endorsement Vote to Help Clinton

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

Co-op Corruption: The Fight to Restore Democratic Control Begins in New Mexico

Tracy Frisch

Labor

BREAKING—One Bourbon, One Strike and No Fear: Jim Beam Workers Win a Better Contract

Mario Vasquez

Rural America

Federal Species Survival Plan Threatens Existence of Wild Red Wolf Population

Dan Zukowski

Labor

In Wake of NLRB Ruling, AFT and SEIU Vie to Organize Grad Student Workers at Northwestern

Jeff Schuhrke

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Neither Clinton Nor Trump Is the Great Pumpkin

On the 50th anniversary of the Charlie Brown classic, politics reminds us that hope isn’t always an asset.

Theo Anderson

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Trump’s Right: The Election Is Rigged. But He’s Wrong About Who’s Rigging It.

There’s a reason people feel unheard in American democracy.

Kate Aronoff