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‘Homeland Security’ Allotted $791 Billion Since 9/11

Jack Bedrosian

Labor

Virginia Restores Funding to Wage-and-Hour Department

Spencer Woodman

Labor

N.Y. City Council Considers Yanking Cablevision’s License

Mike Elk

Feature

It’s OK, We’re All Panicking

40 million Americans suffer from anxiety-related disorders.

David Sirota

Dispatch

VAWA: A Victory for Women—But Which Women?

Advocates cheer the renewal of Violence Against Women Act after a 500-day delay, but question its approach.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Budgetary Power to the People

An experiment with direct democracy on Chicago's South Side.

Joel Handley

Labor

All Work and No Pay: Recognizing Women’s Unpaid Labor in the Global South

Michelle Chen

Comics

Hagel’s First Day At The Pentagon

Jeff Danziger

Feature

Fear in the Fields

For sexual harassers, undocumented farmworkers make the 'perfect victims.'

Joseph Sorrentino

Labor

Union Leader Forbids Beer in Battle with Scab Company

Mike Elk

Labor

Study Demolishes the Myth That U.S. Workers Lack Skills

Roger Bybee

Frat Brothers Raise $15,000 for Transgender Pledge’s Surgery

Laura Gottesdiener, AlterNet

Maryland Court Reverses $1B Verdict Against Exxon

Ian Becker

Comics

Yahoo And Working From Home

Jeff Danziger

Dispatch

Ugandans Sue U.S. Evangelical for Hate Speech

How the persecuted Ugandan LGBT community turned the tables.

Camille Beredjick

Feature

After The Feminine Mystique

There's more to feminism than what Friedan wrote 50 years ago.

Sheila Bapat

Black Chicago Cops Protest City’s Racially Offensive Brochure

Jack Bedrosian

Feature

7 Ways Sequestration Will Sock the Middle Class

Once again, the GOP strips funds from the neediest to pad their own wallets.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President