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As Unions Fall, Lawsuits Rise
Thomas Geoghegan admits he's biased. The labor lawyer writes in the opening pages of his fourth book, See… more
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The Ludlow Legacy At Home
The Ludlow Massacre's tiny monument off I-25 in Southern Colorado is easily missed if you don't know where… more
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Comcast: Worst. Company. Ever.
Inspired by March Madness, the folks at the Consumerist blog recently set up brackets to determine America's worst… more
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The Healthcare Union War
Tensions between the California Nurses Association and SEIU escalate at the Labor Notes conference
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Putin Is Gone! Long Rule Putin!
With new president, Russians continue to forgo political voice for economic security
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As Hunger Rises, Chew on This
A diet of bread and water used to be emblematic of poverty. Now a global food crisis is… more
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Junot Diaz Redefines Macho
An interview with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Book Club of Champions
Guizhou University sits on the outskirts of Guiyang City, the sleepy capital of China's poorest province. Undergraduate tuition… more
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A Speech Even Condi Could Love
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently called race-based slavery a "birth defect" that still troubles our nation. Her… more
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Dissent in the Ranks
SEIU Is the Nation's Fastest Growing Union -- But at What Cost?
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In Praise of Reporting Reality--And The Truth
Ron Ridenhour, who brought the My Lai massacre to the light of day, was courageous. To get the… more
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Big Trucking Deal
A diverse coalition wins a battle to regulate air pollution at California ports
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
I'll admit it: I used to admire John McCain. To paraphrase the UFO poster from "The X Files,"… more
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The Upside of Nationalism
America-first fervor could be the driving force behind economic populism
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Adbusters’ Ads Busted
Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine,… more
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Spain to Senegal: Stay Home
In September 2007, Senegalese television viewers saw the image of a drowned body washed up on a rocky… more
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Shape Up and Ship Out
How the Pentagon can cut the military budget and still keep us safe
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Secular Jews and the ‘Jewish State’
American Jews remain, along with African Americans, the most left-leaning ethnic community in the country. While many support… more
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The Clinton Firewall
The New York Senator's last-ditch efforts to win the Democratic nomination could rely on the "Race Chasm" and the trampling of democracy.
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Caricaturing Danish Muslims
In early 2006, violence across the Islamic world rocked the quaint Scandinavian country of Denmark after one of… more
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Is Wright Right About Racism?
Since the 1960s, bigotry has undergone an aesthetic makeover. Today, the most pernicious racists do not wear pointy… more
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Seattle Battles the Homeless
Underneath the I-5 highway in south Seattle, Isaac Palmer had found a spot to sleep. Hidden away from… more
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Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards
Ten miles outside Eugene in west central Oregon, little wooden houses and mobile homes make up the town… more
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Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla
Who would have thought that we might ever miss Ross Perot? Squawking at us with his graphs and… more
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‘Yes, We Can’… Do What?
By now, we're used to the static that accompanies the election season. It's a streaming wave of wordplay,… more
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New Housing Crisis, Old Isms
The Federal Reserve Bank's decision last week to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed… more
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Actors Union Copies Writers’ Script
Strikes are rare these days. And winning one is almost as rare as sighting an ivory-billed woodpecker. But… more
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Vermont Argues Iraq War is ‘Mission Expired’
While Congress runs out the clock on President Bush's Iraq War, some Vermont legislators hope to spark a… more
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The Man or the Movement
In writing a book about Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, I wondered whether it was the people… more
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The War That Never Ends
Iraq Veterans Against the War's 'Winter Soldier' hearings revealed the awful truths of the occupation and the ongoing struggle for those who have returned home.
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Pig Intestines, Downer Cows
Corruption and incompetence in federal bureaucracies are enough to make your blood run thin. In February, the Food… more
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Kenya’s Indy Media
While news reports across the world have displayed images of chaos shaking Kenya, an alternative media system driven… more
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Remembering What Nixon Learned
A half century ago, Richard Nixon spearheaded his party's national congressional campaign in the face of a recession… more
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The Nadir of Nader
He's back. And he's got your back. Yes, Ralph Nader has thrown down that withering, raggedy old gauntlet… more
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Big Oil Imperils Polar Bears
Just when it seemed like things couldn't get any worse for the polar bear, Big Oil is moving… more
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Recruiting Spies in the Peace Corps
Washington's blunder in Bolivia strains relations with the Morales government
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Red-Boating Obama
Sen. Barack Obama is many things to the right-wing noise machine: a crypto-Muslim, a drug-addled hoodlum, a snob… more
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Obamanomics
An energized constituency could push Obama's centrist economic plan to the left
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A Playwright’s Traumatic Vision
Christopher Shinn is about to become a force in American theater. The 32-year-old New Yorker's first play, "Four,"… more
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Hope in the Time of NAFTA
Reading articles about Hillary Clinton attacking NAFTA can lead you to believe The Onion has taken over America's… more
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You Go Lead, Girl!
State Senator Patricia Torres Ray (D–Minn.) has experience with media bias in America's political landscape. In 2006, when… more
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Salties Ordered to Swish and Spit
Zebra mussels, "bloody red shrimp," quagga mussels and round gobies are a few of the invasive species that… more
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The Malign Magic of Misdirection
It's the oldest trick in the book. The magician flashes the shiny object to misdirect the audience's attention… more
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Silenced in the Barracks
The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse
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The American Left: Liberals, Progressives and the Left
The term "progressive" has evolved a great deal over the past 35 years. By the '70s, many '60s… more
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The New Permanent Campaign
In 1976, a young political consultant named Patrick Caddell sent a memo to Jimmy Carter telling the president-elect… more







