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Opting for Free Time
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Sarah Jaffe
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Is There Detroit After Bankruptcy?
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Labor
Will Illinois ‘Ban the Box?’
Matthew Blake
Labor
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Mike Elk
The Butt Injection Black Market
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Culture
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In OITNB's most-talked-about episode, Sophia Burset explodes transgender stereotypes, and Crazy Eyes gets thrown under the bus.
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P.J. Harvey Gets Unmistakably Political
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Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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The Free Market Backfires
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David Sirota
Feature
The Next Keystone XL?
With TransCanada's tar sands megaproject, a new front opens in North America's pipeline wars.
Cole Stangler
Labor
Labor and Civil Rights Groups Descend on ALEC Conference
Kari Lydersen
Feature
Why Hillary Terrifies the GOP
Good old-fashioned misogyny just doesn't play the way it used to.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Feature
A Half Century After Detroit Uprising, City Still Stranded by Capitalism and Federal Government
How federal policy and Big Auto drove black blight and white flight.
Marilyn Katz
Wal-Mart Fined $190,000 for Health and Safety Violations at 2,857 Stores
Jessica Corbett
Feature
Undocumented Immigrants Win Access to Organ Transplant Waitlists, and a Shot at Life
14 Chicago patients in critical need of transplants went on a hunger strike to change hospital policy.
Rebecca Burns
Labor
More Bad Apple: Watchdog Exposes New Chinese Factory Abuses
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Video
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Miles Kampf-Lassin
Viewpoint
Vanilla Vice
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