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What We Can Learn: An Excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

How Europe builds better products for better lives.

Thomas Geoghegan

Labor

‘Small Government’ Facade Falls in Milwaukee, Revealing Split-Level Reality

Roger Bybee

Comics

CrooksGoFree

Eric Garcia

Labor

Around Country, UNITE-HERE Actions Take on Hotel Giant

Micah Uetricht

Labor

Chicago Teachers Laid Off in Droves

Kari Lydersen

Weekly Mulch: How Reid’s Energy Bill Undermines Senate Climate Efforts

Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

Labor

Hundreds Sit Down in Chicago To Send Hyatt A Message

David Moberg

Culture

Agora Phobia

A new film about ancient religious conflict resonates, but fails at the box office.

Ralph Seliger

Feature

Emmylou and the EPA Take on Big Coal

Tough new standards may save Appalachia’s mountaintops.

Peter White

Labor

Should BP CEO Tony Hayward Go to Prison?

Lewis Maltby

Labor

Netroots-Labor Solidarity: A Work in Progress

Mike Elk

Labor

Beyond the Spin: The People Left Behind by Extended Unemployment Benefits

Art Levine

Weekly Diaspora: Evangelicals Unexpected Allies for Immigration Reform

Annie Shields, Media Consortium blogger

Viewpoint

The Right’s Power of Infrastructure

Robert Parry

Labor

The Recession Enters Prison: Inmate Laborers Face Increasing Layoffs

Akito Yoshikane

France Moves Closer to Banning Burqa—and Betraying Its Own Values

Camille Lepage

Labor

A DREAM is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Immigrant Youth and Economic Crisis

Michelle Chen

Dispatch

Slavery in Our Time

For the first time, the U.S. government acknowledges modern-day slavery in the United States.

Michelle Chen