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Feature
Ilan Pappe: Israel Is the Last Remaining, Active Settler-Colonialist Project
Ilan Pappe discusses Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders and the post-Zionist movement.
Eli Massey
Rural America
Creating and Maintaining the Plantation World in the Mississippi Delta
Cynthia M. Duncan
Culture
Even a Time Finance Columnist Is Now Questioning American Capitalism
Rana Foroohar's "Makers and Takers" breaks down crisis-prone U.S. economy
Chris Lehmann
Feature
The Most Important Thing Missing from Coverage of Syria: The Perspectives of Syrians Themselves
Given that Syrians are the ones most affected by the conflict, it's remarkable how little we hear from them.
Eli Massey
Rural America
God’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and the 3 Myths of Precise Genome Editing
Jonathan R. Latham
Labor
Why I Voted ‘Yes’ To Authorize My Union at CUNY To Call a Strike
Corey Robin
Labor
Garment Factory Workers in Southern California Are Calling for a Boycott of American Apparel
Mario Vasquez
Feature
Why Activists Today Should Still Care About the 40-Year-Old Church Committee Report
The Church Committee Report reveals the lengths the government was willing to go in order to crush grassroots activism and spy on American citizens.
Branko Marcetic
Dispatch
Is Bernie Sanders Right That It’s Time to Phase Out Nuclear Energy?
30 years after Chernobyl, some say we need nuclear power to stop climate change.
Will Boisvert and Jim Riccio
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