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Donald Trump Really Doesn’t Like the First Amendment

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

Marc Daalder

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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

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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

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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

Viewpoint

Stranger Danger: To Resolve the Migrant Crisis We Must Recognize the Stranger Within Ourselves

It is such silence that really helps our racist enemies in that it feeds the distrust of ordinary people—(“You see, they are not telling us the truth!”)—boosting the credibility of racist rumors and lies.

Slavoj Žižek

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Shutting Down Donald Trump’s Rallies Isn’t the Way To Defeat Him

Anti-Trump protesters should focus their efforts on countering his messages, not preventing him from speaking..

David Moberg

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Donald Trump is Not a Populist—Not in the Original Sense, Anyway

Tapping into white, working class discontent and xenophobia does not make you a populist.

David Cochran

Viewpoint

Why Don’t African-American Voters Feel the Bern?

Better the devil they know than the one they don't.

Peter White