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Abolishing Columbus

Nyki Salinas-Duda

Labor

NYT Staffers Walk Out; Coal Workers Coerced Into Donating to Romney; South African Union Leader Shot

Mike Elk

Brewmaster Harvests Bespoke Yeast from Own Beard

Lindsay Beyerstein

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Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box

Labor flexes its political muscle in the Midwest.

Theo Anderson

“The Kiss” Wasn’t Just a Kiss

Lindsay Beyerstein

Real-Time Updates From the Venezuelan Elections

Amanda Eckerson

Culture

America’s Most Famous Living Poet

Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti is as well-known for his activity off the page.

Peter C. Baker

Why the Spanish Are Indignant

Louis Esparza

Culture

The Battle for Black Studies

The forgotten African-American education-reform movement of the '60s and '70s.

Julianne Malveaux

Labor

From Indonesia to California, Laborers Say ‘No’ to Precarious Work

Michelle Chen

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Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid

The presidential candidates aren't so keen on addressing the survival of humanity.

Noam Chomsky

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Two Little Missing Words

If now isn't the time for President Obama to have a real conversation about Social Security, when is?

David Sirota

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Welcome to Planet A-Hole

In case being a 7th-grade girl wasn't traumatic enough, now there's a '12-year-old sluts' Facebook page.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

California Walmart Store Workers Go Out on Historic Strike

David Moberg

9356 Lessons from the Presidential Debate

Bhaskar Sunkara

Labor

Appeals Court OKs Union Election for 10,000 American Airlines Workers

Mike Elk

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Obama: Forever Zung

Three (unsurprising) surprises from his first-debate zinging.

Theo Anderson

Viewpoint

Express Yourself, But Vote

This year's Democratic ticket may not be perfect, but, like life, it is much better than the alternative.

Joel Bleifuss