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Strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Flint, Michigan, early 1937. (Photo: Sheldon Dick) I can think of no better way for us to …

Occupy Albany protesters moving their info tent as they're evicted on December 22, 2011. (Photo: sebastien.barre) Not so long ago, Americans witnessed the beginning of a mass …

President Obama, after objecting to provisions of a military spending bill that would have forced him to try terrorism suspects in military courts and impose strict sanctions on Iran’s …

This was the year that “fracking” became a household word. It wasn't just that environmental concerns about the underground drilling process finally struck a mainstream chord — …

On a recent day in Petaluma, two very different events spotlighted grim results of upside-down priorities from the federal government. Upwards of 600 people gathered for …

From Egypt to Wisconsin, and from Wall Street to any town USA, 2011 was a year in which people raised their voices to call for justice. As we head …

As we close out 2011, readers of this space will likely not be surprised to hear the following:

President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette about to spin out of control in the Persian Gulf. If we were still on …

Jill Korber walked into a drab police station in Queens in July to report that a passing bicyclist had groped her two days in a row. She left in …

American forces arriving in Kuwait in one of the final convoys out of Iraq, December 3, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) In the …