The Wisconsin Idea
Rural America
Fracking Exec Reportedly Admits Targeting the Poor, Because They Don’t Have ‘The Money To Fight’
Jessica Kozik
Viewpoint
Hillary Clinton and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
Do young people oppose Clinton because they're sexist—or because they're looking for something more in politics?
Theo Anderson
Labor
Demanding an End to Citizens United, 300 ‘Democracy Awakening’ Protesters Arrested at U.S. Capitol
Bruce Vail
Comics
Hillary Clinton or Margaret Thatcher?
Matt Bors
Labor
Recycling May Ease Your Conscience, But for Workers, It’s Dirty, Dangerous and Even Deadly
Brian Joseph
Dispatch
The Bernie Sanders Campaign Is Electrifying New York Politics. Will It Be Enough to Win the Primary?
Inspired by Sanders, independent groups like "Team Bernie NYC" and "Harlem for Bernie" have been hitting the streets to engage voters
Ethan Corey
Rural America
More and More Women are Farm Operators: Who Are They?
Elizabeth Zach
Viewpoint
On Israel and Palestine, Bernie Sanders Is Right—And Hillary Clinton Knows It
For the first time in memory, a major American political figure insisted publicly that the Jewish state and its leaders are "not always right," and that they had killed and injured far too many blameless human beings.
Joe Conason
Viewpoint
Bernie Sanders Must Defy the Pro-Israel Lobby and Reinstate His Anti-Occupation Jewish Advisor
Simone Zimmerman was suspended from her position for her comments against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But her position reflects the diversity of thought among millennial Jews—and should be celebrated, not punished.
Marc Daalder
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