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Firedoglake Obtains FBI’s File On Aaron Swartz

Ian Becker

Labor

Obama’s Universal Preschool Plan: As Good as It Sounds?

Michelle Chen

Viewpoint

NRA: No Research Allowed

Two reasons the NRA is like Big Tobacco.

Susan J. Douglas

Viewpoint

A Deadly Disorder at the EPA

Before we can save the honeybees, we need to resuscitate the EPA.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

Are Mergers the Answer for Fractious Nurses Unions?

David Moberg

Princesses and Pandas: Hilary Mantel on Kate Middleton

Lindsay Beyerstein

Farmer’s Clever Case Against Monsanto Didn’t Sway Supreme Court

Amien Essif

Comics

The Arizona Chainsaw Massacre

Eric Garcia

Video

Thom Hartman: Will the Historic DC Climate Rally Make Change?

Amien Essif

North Dakota Senate Declares an Embryo a ‘Person’—Endangering Women, Physicians Say

Camille Beredjick

40 Cities Around Globe Set to Protest 1,000th Day of Bradley Manning’s Imprisonment

Alex Kane, AlterNet

Feature

What Europe’s Elites Don’t Know

When the blind are leading the blind, democracy is the victim.

Slavoj Žižek

Feature

The Wage Theft Epidemic

Thanks to a wave of government cuts, there's no one to stop your boss from withholding your pay.

Spencer Woodman

Feature

Death of the Yuppie Dream

The rise and fall of the professional-managerial class.

Barbara and John Ehrenreich

Emory University President Gets Flak for Praising ‘Three-Fifths’ Compromise

Jack Bedrosian

The Climate Math: Three Out of 40,000 Share Their Stories

Melinda Tuhus

Is Bill McKibben’s Math Finally Adding Up?

Bryan Farrell

Plot Thickens in Suicide of Israel’s Top-Secret ‘Prisoner X’

Camille Beredjick