The Wisconsin Idea

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Superdelegate Showdown: Round One Goes to the Democratic National Committee
Democratic Party activists lost at the Rules Committee meeting, but garnered enough support to take their fight to abolish superdelegates to the floor of the convention.
Kate Aronoff

Rural America
Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 23, 2016)
Rural America In These Times

Labor
Why Black Lives Matter Is Taking On Police Unions
Adeshina Emmanuel

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Activists Push the Democrats for Real Solutions on Climate Change
The Democrats' climate platform beats the Republicans', but it doesn't go far enough.
Kate Aronoff

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Trump Has Concocted a Dangerous New Blend of Pseudo-Leftism and Nativist Populism
The RNC showed Republicans are moving in a new, and frightening, direction.
Theo Anderson

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Is Hillary Clinton a Progressive? Not If She Chooses Tim Kaine
By choosing Tim Kaine as her vice president, Clinton signaled that she values progressives in name and vote only.
Jodi Jacobson

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Yale Worker Who Shattered Racist Window: ‘People are Tired of Being Victims’
Corey Menafee tells In These Times what brought him to the breaking point.
Michelle Chen

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U.S.-Led Airstrikes Just Killed 85 Syrian Civilians—And the Corporate Media Looked Away
More died than in last week's Nice, France attack, but far fewer words were written.
Adam Johnson

Labor
Wall Street Vultures May Have Wrecked the Central States Pension Fund
Bruce Vail
