The Wisconsin Idea
Feature
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Labor certainly made news in 2012. But was it a banner year or a bruising one?
Anthony Mangini
Feature
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Noam Chomsky
Viewpoint
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The Associated Press's decision to favor 'anti-gay' over 'homophobic' isn't as bad as some say.
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Kari Lydersen
Feature
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Andrew Lam
Culture
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We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.
Jane Miller
Feature
An Open Letter to Professor Noam Chomsky
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Bianca Ambrosio
Feature
The GOP’s 1 Trillion Dollar Lie
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Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Feature
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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
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