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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

Feature

The Real Problem with Obamacare

Where the defeat of single-payer healthcare has gotten us.

David Sirota

Labor

The National Labor Relations Board Is Back at Full Throttle

Bruce Vail

Labor

A Halloween Nightmare in Juárez

Michelle Chen

Viewpoint

What Our Country Has Done for Us

The high hopes of JFK's day have mostly been dashed.

Susan J. Douglas

Viewpoint

The War on the Gullible

75 years after the 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, Americans are still panicked by fake news.

Susan J. Douglas