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Political Horse Trading Could Leave 400,000 Virginians Without Medicaid

Hannah Gelbort

Feature

Orange is The New Black, Season 2, Episode 1: It’s All About Piper

If you are not a fan of cockroaches or Piper, you are out of luck.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

Rank-and-File Environmentalism

Why workers are crucial to halting the assault on the planet.

Trish Kahle

Dispatch

Why Can’t College Be Free?

Three proposals to reclaim the promise of higher education.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

The Problem with Philanthropy

The occasional $120 million check doesn't offset tech billionaires' erosion of the public sector.

David Sirota

Viewpoint

The Race Debate and Switch

America almost had a real conversation about racism.

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

Booming Business, But Falling Wages, in California Grocery Stores

Bruce Vail

Viewpoint

CIA No Evil

The Obama administration covers for Bush-era secrets.

Leonard C. Goodman

Feature

Monkey Wrenching the Frackers

Radical environmentalists prepare to fight gas export terminal through direct action.

Cole Stangler

Feature

Message to ‘Moral Mondays’ Protesters: Be Silent—Or Else

North Carolina residents are being denied First Amendment rights.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Despite Promised Jobs, Desert Town Opposes Giant Copper Mine

Kari Lydersen

Comics

Eric Cantor’s Steakhouse Regrets

Jeff Danziger

Feature

The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over

Orange Is the New Black's second season still falls flat on class and race.

Yasmin Nair

Target Janitors Win Collective Bargaining Rights

Carlos Ballesteros

‘When I See You, I See $80 a Day’: New Report Slams Private Prisons for Immigrants

George Lavender

Feature

Orange Is the New Black Makes Other TV Look Quaint

The show is the first to take women this seriously.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Viewpoint

Mission To Muckrake

Why investigative reporting matters.

Joel Bleifuss

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Missing Native Vote

Nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, American Indians still don't have equal access to the ballot box.

Stephanie Woodard