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A seasoned pollster explains the message Dems should be hammering home for the upcoming elections to prevent a Republican landslide.
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Labor
Why Does Scott Walker Think $7.25 Is a Living Wage?
David Sirota

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Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay
David Bacon

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Meet Jess Spear, the Socialist and Climate Scientist Running for Washington’s State House
Ari Paul

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Billionaire-Backed Group Spends Unprecedented $290K in Minneapolis School Board Race
Sarah Lahm

Culture
The Next Oil Spill
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Patricia Aufderheide

Labor
Silicon Valley Firm’s Wage Theft: ‘Worse Than Sweatshops’
Alex Lubben

Labor
Denmark’s McDonald’s Workers Aren’t Demanding $15 an Hour—Because They’re Already Making $20
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Labor
‘Yelp for Guestworkers’ Shines Light On Shadowy, Abusive Recruiting Process
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Culture
The Filmmaker Any Cinema-Literate Progressive Must Know
Finally, more of Chris Marker's work is becoming available in the U.S. Here's where to start.
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Comics
GamerGate: The Internet’s Ebola
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How People Are Becoming Corporations
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Labor
With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed
Roger Bybee

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The Vicious Attacks of GamerGate Are the Norm for Women on the Internet
A brief history of online violence against women.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Terkel’s Torch-Bearers
Meet the new generation of oral historians.
Theo Anderson

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Rahm Emanuel Has a New Progressive Challenger in Chicago’s Mayoral Race
Yana Kunichoff

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Good News for Philadelphia Teachers: Court Delays Unelected Reformers’ Shady Contract Cancellation
Kevin Solari

Labor
Hawaiian Health Care Workers Push Back Against Health Care Giant Kaiser Permanente
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Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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