The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Labor Pushing Backbone Implant for Wavering Dems on Taxes, Social Security, Deficits
Art Levine

Feature
Changing the Daley Routine
As a Chicago dynasty ends, progressives weigh their options.
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UK Protests Get Rowdy After ‘Free-Market’ University Reforms Proposed
David Szydloski
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Labor
With Help From Friends, Unpaid Worker Demands Car Wash Clean Up Its Act
Andrew Oxford

Labor
Pilots’ Unions Say ‘No’ to Invasive TSA Airport Scans
Lindsay Beyerstein
Weekly Diaspora | Arizona’s SB1070 Takes Nativist Fever Nationwide
Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
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Labor
Check, Please! Workers, Activists Nationwide Take Action Against Wage Theft
Rose Arrieta
Viewpoint
Dear Dems: Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town
Michael Moore
Labor
Mourning in America: Death of the Middle Class
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor
Wal-Mart Eyes New York Again After Chicago Victory
Akito Yoshikane

Labor
This Thanksgiving, Remember the Hand that Feeds You
Michelle Chen
Weekly Pulse: The New Hunger Epidemic, Making CPCs Come Clean, and Smoking Hipsters
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Dispatch
Radioactivist Vindicated
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sides with a fired whistleblower.
John Raymond

Labor
Unions Push Jobs, ‘Green’ Bills for Lame Duck Congress
David Moberg
Labor
Amanpour, Major Media, Ignored Honeywell Lockout as CEO Toured India with Obama
Mike Elk
Labor
Betting on Workers’ Rights Lawsuits: A Lucrative Gamble?
Kari Lydersen

Labor
Wisconsin Gov. Rejects $810 Million, Thousands of Jobs, for High-Speed Rail Project
Roger Bybee
Weekly Audit: Curbing the Deficit, Cat Food, and You
Lindsay Beyerstein
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