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Bruce Vail
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Behind the Business Attire, Many Bank Workers Earn Poverty Wages
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UE Organizing Director Bob Kingsley Prepares To Step Down, But Lefty Union Shows No Signs of Slowing
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Home Care Workers Could Soon See a Major Raise In Their Wages
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Appalachia’s Coal Industry is Collapsing—But the Mountains Aren’t Coming Back
The fall of West Virginia's coal mono-industry leaves the area without its peaks and forests. Only an uncertain future remains.
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‘The Teacher Shortage’ Is No Accident—It’s the Result of Corporate Education Reform Policies
Kevin Prosen
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McDonald’s Workers Take Fight for $15 to Brazil, Accuse Company of “Cannibal Capitalism”
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Rural Spain: The Challenge for Podemos, the Country’s New Left
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Chicago Parents Enter Week 2 of Hunger Strike Protesting Corporate Ed Reform and Dyett HS Closure
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Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina
How long-time residents feel about the new Louisiana purchase
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Slavoj Zizek: The Greek Apocalypse: Versailles or Brest-Litovsk?
A response to my critics and the case for a guerrilla war within the Eurozone
Slavoj Žižek
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‘The Wire’ Humanized Urban Black People. In ‘Show Me a Hero,’ David Simon Humanizes White Racists.
In a post-Ferguson America, David Simon's Show Me a Hero feels sadly dated.
Maya Dukmasova
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Deez Nuts Endorses Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Presidential Nomination
He also endorsed, perhaps not surprisingly, himself for the general election.
Micah Uetricht
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Washington Supreme Court Rules All SeaTac Workers Must Be Paid $15 Minimum Wage
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The New Anthems of Resistance: Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter and hip-hop have taken the omnipresent tensions around racism in America and put them into the center of mainstream consciousness.
Alexander Billet
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Bernie Sanders Is Drawing Massive Crowds Around the Country—No Big Deal, Says Washington Post
Mainstream commentators are insistent that the outpouring of enthusiasm for Sanders' progressive vision is meaningless.
Michael Tkaczevski
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NLRB Declines To Rule On Northwestern Football Players’ Union, Setting Back Player Organizing
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