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The Amazing Plasticity of American Statecraft
Think of Washington as a poker player that gets dealt a hand consisting of half the deck: no matter how sloppily and stupidly it plays its cards, it is hard for it to lose.
Chase Madar
Feature
How the Government Fast-Tracked Shell’s Arctic Drilling
After Royal Dutch Shell's mishaps in the Arctic in 2012, the Obama administration indicated a major rethink of the approval process was in order—but instead, Shell got another rubber stamp.
Kamil Ahsan
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A New Poll Has Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton by 7 Percent in the New Hampshire Primary
New Hampshire seems to be feeling the Bern.
Marc Daalder
Viewpoint
Donald Trump Is the Most Honest Candidate in American Politics Today
Where other candidates appeal to a fictitious unity or pretense of moral integrity, he displays the power of inequality.
Jodi Dean
Labor
Union Members Seem To Want Bernie Sanders Over Hillary Clinton. Will Labor Leadership Follow Them?
Mario Vasquez
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They Voted ‘No’ to Austerity. They Got ‘Yes’ Anyway. What Do Greeks Think About Tsipras Now?
We asked Athenians on the street how they feel about the Syriza leader's acceptance of the EU's terms and the lean times ahead.
Tomás Lynch
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Feticide Laws Are Disproportionately Used Against Women of Color
Purvi Patel's 20-year prison sentence for a miscarriage is part of a larger pattern.
Rachelle Hampton
Video
Bernie Sanders Now Has a Rap Theme Song—And It’s Not Bad
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Rural America
Out of Site, Out of Mine: Who Pays When Toxic Sludge Escapes?
John Collins
Labor
Indiana University Health Nurse Who Wanted to Unionize Fired—Then Un-Fired
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Feature
Bernie Sanders Speaks to 28,000 People in Portland, While Hillary Hosts $2,700-a-Head Fundraiser
The contrast between candidates could not be more stark.
Zaid Jilani, Alternet
Feature
The Union Behind the Biggest Campaign Against Walmart in History May Be Throwing in the Towel. Why?
With major cuts rumored, the future of the campaign against America's largest private employer is uncertain.
David Moberg
Feature
Yes, ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Is Empowering. No, Having Sex with Your Stepdaughter Is Not Okay.
The film is rightly being cheered for showing a 15-year-old girl claiming sexual power. But the film—and its rave reviews—sometimes shy away from how rape culture and patriarchy can pervert that claim.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
California First State To Pay For Prisoner’s Sex Affirmation Surgery
George Lavender
Dispatch
The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton?
Feminists debate symbolism, socialism and racial politics in the presidential race
Kathleen Geier
Feature
Is Climate Change Causing Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder in Millennials?
Today's youth are coming of age in the age of extinction
Martin de Bourmont and Dayton Martindale
Rural America
Human Ego and the Grizzly Bear: Is the West Big Enough?
Dayton Martindale
Transgender Woman Who Took California to Court Over Cost of Surgery to be Paroled
George Lavender
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