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Culture

Orange Is the New Black, Episode 3: Trans Women and Mentally Ill Cartoons

In OITNB's most-talked-about episode, Sophia Burset explodes transgender stereotypes, and Crazy Eyes gets thrown under the bus.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Culture

P.J. Harvey Gets Unmistakably Political

Harvey's new track pays homage to Shaker Aamer, who has spent 13 years in Guantanamo.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Free Market Backfires

What happens when the private insurance industry contradicts right-wing talking points?

David Sirota

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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

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Why Hillary Terrifies the GOP

Good old-fashioned misogyny just doesn't play the way it used to.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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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

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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