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Court: NC Legislators Must Reveal Documents, Purpose Behind Challenged Voting ‘Reform’
A U.S. District judge has ruled that Republican legislators in North Carolina must provide documents revealing their work in passing and implementing what has become known as a voter …
Young, at Work in the Fields
Most young farm-workers in California are migrants from Mexico. Photographer David Bacon gives a view of their daily lives.
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Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies, Study Shows
Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians and deep into the leadership of America's teaching hospitals.
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A Dispatch from 350’s Divestment Trenches
The 350 movement is using a variety of strategies and tactics to convince investors to divest of fossil fuel and related companies' financial instruments.
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Why Pakistan Is Not Changing
A Sindh nationalist analyzes the forces that make change in Pakistan so difficult - but also ultimately inevitable.
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Occupy Sandy and the Future of Socialism
The impromptu relief efforts in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, as in every crisis, quashed the notions that humans are inherently selfish.
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How Jews Brought America to the Tipping Point on Marriage Equality: Lessons for the Next Social Justice Issues
In a few short years, same-sex marriage went from being an untouchable political hot potato to a broadly accepted civil right. Jews, and their social justice organizations, helped make …
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Why We Need A 10.4 Million Jobs Plan
It doesn't matter what Friday's report of the March job numbers shows. If you listed our national problems in order of priority, jobs has to be at or near …
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Changing Our Climate of Indifference
In a million ways, the changing climate is ruining lives around the world by changing rain patterns, floods, mudslides, crop failures, and more. What will it take to for …
Where are History and Political Economy in Ryan’s Report?
Paul Ryan's report on the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty was grossly misleading.