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Labor

Workers Try to Organize Airport Subway, Get Fired

David Bacon

Labor

As Some AT&T Unions Strike, Others “Scab”

Mike Elk

Labor

U.S. Industrial Policy Needed, But Elites in Both Parties Have No Answers

Roger Bybee

Feature

Can Government Create Jobs or Not?

If Republicans don't believe government can create jobs, why are they pushing military spending?

David Sirota

Viewpoint

GOP Time Travelers and Other Hucksters

The misguided semantics paving the way to November's election

Chris Lehmann

Labor

Research Raises More Toxic Health Concerns for Popcorn Workers

Michelle Chen

Feature

Freedom of the Press Remains Elusive in Turkey

Though the government denies targeting journalists, more than 90 Turkish journalists have spent most of the last year behind bars

Stephen Franklin

Feature

Gabby Douglas’s Grace Under Fire

Douglas’s hair became this competition’s most popular topic of tongue-wagging. But the 16-year-old never lost focus.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Obama Channels Reagan on Welfare

Josh Eidelson

Feature

Obama’s Trump Card: Ohio

Three reasons why the Buckeye State is helping the president beat the odds.

Theo Anderson

Culture

There Will Be Blood ... and Movies

The evolution of our interaction with film

Michael Atkinson

Labor

NASA Firefighters Protest Steep Cuts (Updated)

Mike Elk

Charter School Follies

Lindsay Beyerstein

Labor

Chicago Protesters: “Take TIFs Off the Menu!”

Kari Lydersen

Greek Government Could Collapse

Bhaskar Sunkara

Feature

Defender of the Commonweal

A conversation with Polly Toynbee, The Guardian's voice of leftist dissent

Jane Miller

Merlene Robinson-Parsons Won’t Be Evicted This Week

Joseph Misulonas

Labor

Penn Unions Eagerly Support GOP’s Proposed $1.7 Billion Gift to Shell Oil

Bruce Vail