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Get Angry: The Year’s 10 Best Political Docs

From Eliot Spitzer to Daniel Ellsberg, documentary filmmakers didn't lack engrossing subjects this year.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

Wisconsin’s Walker Wants to Hide Jobs Info, Just Like Indiana

Roger Bybee

Viewpoint

Chicago’s Torture Cop Awaits His Sentence

Salim Muwakkil

Culture

The Babbitt of the Bobos

Is David Brooks America's most misguided pundit?

Chris Lehmann

Viewpoint

Faces of Economic Death

David Sirota

Labor

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Oligarchy

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Culture

Autopsy of an Auto Plant

The new book Punching Out is brilliant Detroit-style immersion journalism.

Steve Weinberg

Labor

Can Labor—Or Anyone— Stop the Foreclosure Mess That’s Wrecking the Economy?

Art Levine

Weekly Pulse: Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply

Alexandra Markowski

Labor

Tis Still the Season for Layoffs

Kari Lydersen

Viewpoint

How to Manufacture a Disease

Terry J. Allen

Labor

Global Recession Turns Top-Tier Economies Upside Down

Michelle Chen

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Eric Garcia

Feature

A Three-Point Plan to Save Democrats

The party must reconnect to its populist roots.

Roger Bybee

Labor

Since Great Recession, More Working Families in Poverty

Akito Yoshikane

Labor

The ‘Repo-Demo’ Party’s Three Phase Austerity Plan for America

Jack Rasmus

Weekly Audit: Republicans Poised to Declar War on the Welfare State

Alexandra Markowski

Labor

Globalization, Use of Temps, Destroying Middle-Class Jobs

Roger Bybee