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A Newly Leaked Hillary Clinton Memo Shows How Campaigns Get Around Super PAC Rules

It's not that hard.

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

You Don’t Have to Like Hillary Clinton—But Sexist Attacks On Her Supporters Are Shameful

The gendered attacks against Clinton and her supporters must come to an end.

Susan J. Douglas

Labor

Baltimore May Be the Next City to Adopt a $15 Minimum Wage

Bruce Vail

What Are People Saying About the Stanford Case?

George Lavender

Rural America

Extractive Economies Threaten an Ancient Grain in Minnesota

Laray Polk

Labor

What the Labor Movement Can Learn from Bernie Sanders’ Unapologetic Socialism

Joe Burns

Labor

Chicago Workers Are Close to Winning a New Paid Sick Leave Law

Jeff Schuhrke

Rural America

North Dakota Voters Side With Family Farms and Continue 84-Year-Old Ban on Corporate Ownership

Alex McLeese

Feature

Democrats Say Superdelegates Have Never Decided An Election. In 1984, They Thought the Opposite.

A review of newspaper reports from 1984 shows that Democratic officials believed the superdelegate system had "virtually assured" the nomination for the establishment candidate.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature

Thomas Linzey

Culture

The View From Today’s Versailles

A new book by Michelle Fields, former Breitbart reporter, rightly skewers our political class—but suffers from a case of hypocrisy

Chris Lehmann

Labor

The Right to Strike Must Mean the Right to Return to Work After a Strike

Shaun Richman

Feature

Looking for the Left in Argentina

Why haven’t President Mauricio Macri’s economic reforms faced the same sort of public resistance that was seen around Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis?

Graciela Monteagudo

Feature

The Left Must Put Refugees and Migration at the Heart of Its Politics

Mathew Carr rebukes Europe's inhumane and fear-fueled response to the refugee crisis.

Tom Ladendorf

Feature

Breaking the Cycle of Violence in South Sudan: An Interview with Nick Turse

Journalist Nick Turse characterizes the situation in South Sudan, and how American policy has shaped the world's newest nation.

Marc Daalder

Viewpoint

Government Surveillance Can’t Prevent Attacks Like Orlando. We Shouldn’t Expand It Now.

We are already incredibly surveilled, yet this did nothing to keep us safer. Increasing surveillance won't help prevent future attacks.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

The Unintended Consequences of a Brexit

On June 23, British voters will decide if Britain will leave the EU—but either option carries serious economic and social consequences.

Jeff Faux

Feature

Meet the New Leader of Chicago’s Principals Who’s Taking on Rahm Emanuel and Corporate School Reform

Troy LaRaviere is an award-winning educator and a fierce critic of Emanuel's education agenda. Bernie Sanders has his back—and he's not closing the door on a run for mayor.

Miles Kampf-Lassin