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A New Direction For the Fed?
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Idaho Judge Holds Private Prison Company CCA In Contempt For Deliberately Understaffing Prisons
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Dispatch
Dream Defenders Stand Their Ground
Occupying the New Jim Crow system.
Jeff Schuhrke

Labor
A 98-Year-Old Labor Reporter Who Loved Avant-Garde Music
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12 Nameless, Witless Women We Shall Miss
Goodbye, The Newsroom. Goodbye, The Newsroom’s rotating cast of yelled-at female characters.
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Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 14: Ozymandias
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‘Sham or mere pretext’: Kansas sex offenders locked up ‘till death, even without a life sentence
Matt Stroud

Labor
Unite Here and Hyatt Hit Hiccups in Peace Process
Bruce Vail

Feature
Will Syria Re-Energize the Anti-Drone Movement?
Buoyed by the Syria outcome, anti-war groups are charging ahead.
Cole Stangler

Labor
Ban Ki-Moon Accused of Union-Busting at UN
Michelle Chen

Viewpoint
Compounders Slip Through Deadly FDA Loophole
A Big-Pharma-funded Congress has tied regulators' hands. The result? Lethal drugs.
Terry J. Allen

Labor
Nurses Taste Victory in Battle That Shook New York Politics
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
Let’s Get Visceral
Anti-abortion activists plan memorial services for unborn fetuses, complete with tiny coffins.
Robin Marty

Public Radio International’s Love Letter to Fracking
Alternative Press Center

Labor
D.C. Mayor Vetoes Bill To Lift Wal-Mart Wages
Bruce Vail

Feature
The False Logic of ‘Gun Freedom’
The real lessons of the NRA's victory in Colorado.
David Sirota

Colombian Ex-GM Workers Call on U.S. for Help
Stephen Franklin
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