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How Ferguson’s Black Majority Can Take Control of Their City

Our analysis of the voting data shows that when only white people vote, only white people get elected.

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Jim Crow at the Polling Place

New voter legislation is an unwelcome blast from the past.

Joel Bleifuss

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8 Messaging Tips for Embattled Democrats from a Longtime Pollster

A seasoned pollster explains the message Dems should be hammering home for the upcoming elections to prevent a Republican landslide.

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Labor

Why Does Scott Walker Think $7.25 Is a Living Wage?

David Sirota

Labor

Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay

David Bacon

Labor

Meet Jess Spear, the Socialist and Climate Scientist Running for Washington’s State House

Ari Paul

Labor

Billionaire-Backed Group Spends Unprecedented $290K in Minneapolis School Board Race

Sarah Lahm

Culture

The Next Oil Spill

According to a new documentary, we're all responsible for the BP disaster.

Patricia Aufderheide

Labor

Silicon Valley Firm’s Wage Theft: ‘Worse Than Sweatshops’

Alex Lubben

Labor

Denmark’s McDonald’s Workers Aren’t Demanding $15 an Hour—Because They’re Already Making $20

Janet Allon, AlterNet

Labor

‘Yelp for Guestworkers’ Shines Light On Shadowy, Abusive Recruiting Process

Rachel Luban

Culture

The Filmmaker Any Cinema-Literate Progressive Must Know

Finally, more of Chris Marker's work is becoming available in the U.S. Here's where to start.

Michael Atkinson

Comics

GamerGate: The Internet’s Ebola

Matt Bors

Video

How People Are Becoming Corporations

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed

Roger Bybee

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The Vicious Attacks of GamerGate Are the Norm for Women on the Internet

A brief history of online violence against women.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Dispatch

Terkel’s Torch-Bearers

Meet the new generation of oral historians.

Theo Anderson

Labor

Rahm Emanuel Has a New Progressive Challenger in Chicago’s Mayoral Race

Yana Kunichoff