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A Booster Shot for Social Security

The GOP--and some Democrats--want to cut the program. Progressive Dems want to expand it.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

America’s Going Rogue

The U.S. snubs treaties, obligations and universal principles.

Noam Chomsky

Labor

Workers Battle With Grocery Chains Over Obamacare Implementation

Bruce Vail

Culture

Reading Camus in Tunisia

The Rebel and the Arab Spring.

Robert Zaretsky

Comics

Plane Crash Vs. Mass Shooting

Matt Bors

Feature

Is Local TV Going Down the Tubes?

An FCC loophole allows media conglomerates to corner smaller broadcast markets.

Cole Stangler

Comics

The Politics of Food Stamps

Matt Bors

Feature

It’s Not Safe Out There

Weak laws and an understaffed OSHA leave workers vulnerable and voiceless

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Viewpoint

Flipping the House in 2014

Next year's congressional elections call for a more unified, progressive and revitalized Democratic Party.

Carl Davidson

Labor

What To Expect When You’re Electing: A New York City Ballot Roundup (Updated)

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Picturing an End to New York City’s Homelessness Crisis

More than 50,000 New Yorkers are homeless. Here's what the new mayor could do to help.

Molly Knefel

Viewpoint

President Obama: Incompetent or Liar?

Without Snowden leaks, the president wouldn’t even know that the NSA spies on world leaders.

Steven Hill

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 6: Journey to the Center of Saul’s Man-Pain

Homeland puts Saul’s midlife crisis over the welfare (and sanity) of its female characters.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A decent proposal: to reduce recidivism, more prisons should allow conjugal visits

Matt Stroud

Dispatch

The Adoption-Industrial Complex

Is U.S. domestic adoption about children or profit?

Jessica Stites

Progressive Chicagoans Take Budget Hearings into Their Own Hands—No Emanuel Necessary

Matthew Blake

Labor

OSHA Weaknesses Force Workers to Choose: Report Safety Violations, or Keep Their Jobs?

Mike Elk

5th Circuit Shutters up to a Third of Texas Abortion Clinics

Lindsay Beyerstein