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Labor

Creating Jobs, Trimming Deficits: Progressive Budget Plans Challenge Dems

David Moberg

Labor

Is the Federal Pay Freeze Obama’s PATCO?

Mike Elk

Labor

UE Determined to Clip Wings of Aerospace Giant, Save Jobs in Mass.

Roger Bybee

Weekly Audit: A Progressive Deficit Fix?

Lindsay Beyerstein

Comics

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Eric Garcia

Labor

The Twelve Days of Capitalism

Lindsay Beyerstein

Viewpoint

Let Them Drink Soda

Terry J. Allen

Labor

Voices From These Times: ‘Haymarket Square’

Mike Bryant

Labor

Underscoring Passenger Safety, Pilots Ask ‘Who’s Flying Your Plane?’

Carl Finamore

Feature

Chicago’s Other Community Organizer

Rep. Jan Schakowsky wants to solve the deficit crisis without soaking the lower- and middle-class.

David Moberg

Labor

As New Zealand Coal Mine Burns, Heat on Industry Increases

Kari Lydersen

Feature

China’s New Lost Generation

Dissidents struggle against state-induced historical amnesia.

Ryszard Gorky

Labor

Irish Unions Fight Austerity, as Economic Hopes Deflate

Michelle Chen

Labor

Gary Works to Get a GRIP on Blighted City’s Economic Future

Kari Lydersen

Culture

The End of Indie?

The difference between "mainstream" and "indie" music has almost disappeared.

Rachel Lears

Labor

Native and African-American Farmers Finally Get Their Due

Rose Arrieta

Weekly Mulch: How to Avoid Gobbling Your Way Through the Holidays

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Culture

The Politics of a New Metropolis

Fritz Lang's newly expanded dystopian classic looks better than ever. Its vision of humanity? Not so much.

Michael Atkinson