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Just Whose National Security?

The government's idea of protection seems awfully self-serving.

Noam Chomsky

Colorado Bans Use of Solitary Confinement for “Seriously Mentally Ill” Prisoners

George Lavender

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Mind the Gap, Inc.

Online organizers use a creative hoax to remind the corporation—and its customers—just who's suffering to produce its products.

Isabelle Nastasia

Comics

Soylent: Our Dystopian Food Future

Matt Bors

Feature

Americans Pay the Price for Private Equity Firms’ Sins

When private equity firms illegally game the system, plutocrats aren't the only ones who suffer.

David Sirota

The Koch Brothers Could Own Every House in Atlanta

Ethan Corey

Labor

One Year After Closings, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?

Yana Kunichoff

Feature

UN Blast of U.S. Human Rights Record Goes Mostly Unnoticed

U.S. media outlets have largely ignored a UN report noting America's human rights violations.

Ana Martinez

Feature

Italy’s Forgotten Refugees

The country's structural support systems are quaking under the sheer volume of immigrants seeking asylum.

Giorgio Ghiglione

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The U.S. Chamber of Secrets

Who's funding the Chamber of Commerce and its attacks on workers' rights groups? No one knows.

Mariya Strauss

Culture

Artisanal Union-Busting

Whole Foods has attempted to crush anything resembling a union drive among its employees.

Chris Lehmann

Obama Floats Landmark Plan To Reduce Carbon Emission

Mary Lorenzo

Comics

A Decade of Environmentalist Deaths

Eric Garcia

Feature

Should We Fight the System or Be the Change?

The strengths and weaknesses of prefigurative politics.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Comics

How to Draw President Obama

Matt Bors

Labor

Leslie Orear, 103, Helped Bring Together Black and White Packinghouse Workers in the 1930s

Stephen Franklin

Dispatch

Abortion’s Underground Railroad

As state laws restrict abortion access, volunteers are stepping up to help women clear the hurdles.

Eesha Pandit

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Amara and Goliath

It's official: Rahm Emanuel has a challenger.

Kari Lydersen