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Rural America
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Bernie Is Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well
For some, the Paris attacks were a windfall
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Who Built the Golden Gate Bridge? New Book Tells Bridge Workers’ Stories
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Labor
“No one has ever tried this before”: Mexican, U.S. Workers Bring Employer Charges Under NAFTA
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Labor
New Play Chronicles the Toll of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Workers
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Viewpoint
The Right’s Response to the Paris Attacks Is Shameful and Opportunistic
Trump et al. should take a lesson from a 4-year-old boy in Paris.
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Comics
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Labor
The Toxic Chemical Causing Lung Disease Among Both Workers Making and Users Vaping E-Cigarettes
Elizabeth Grossman
Comics
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Viewpoint
Why We Can’t Bridge the Gulf Between Donald Trump Supporters and the Rest of Us
When one side believes poor people, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people and others deserve rights and the other doesn't, how can we possibly bridge the gap?
Waleed Shahid
Viewpoint
I Saw Disturbing Racism at Yale After 9/11. Sadly, It Seems Little Has Changed.
When will our universities stop treating students of color as throwaway items in the grooming of privileged white students?
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Feature
Bernie Sanders Just Won TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll—And It Wasn’t Even Close
The democratic socialist came out far, far ahead of both Clinton and Trump.
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The Wrong Kind of Solidarity: The UK’s Decision to Join the Air Strikes on Syria
Why bombing Syria in an attempt to weaken ISIS is not the answer to the Paris attacks.
Jane Miller
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What Corporate America Would Do If It Really Cared About Climate Change
CEOs are professing to care about the climate. But they're still funding Republican climate-change deniers.
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