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Winning the White Working Class
Tom Lewandowski, a former General Electric factory worker, heads the central labor union council in this northeastern Indiana... more
June 2008
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Features
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The Cho Show
Margaret Cho knows how brutal Hollywood can be. In 2000, in her critically acclaimed one-woman comedy show, "I'm the... more
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Piling it High
The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day
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Main Street Squeeze
Pick your metaphor for the current state of American workers: Are they squeezed? Caught? Crunched? Three new books... more
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Mexico’s Ghost Towns
The other side of the immigration debate
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Sam’s Club Politics
On a recent episode of the NBC comedy "30 Rock," the cutthroat corporate executive Jack Donaghy, played by Alec... more
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No Strings Attached?
How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence
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Does the E.U. Hate You?
Despite popular myth, anti-Americanism in Europe isn't on the rise
News
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The Push to Privatize PEMEX
Halliburton is licking its chops at the prospect of Mexico's state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos going private. Petr... more
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Axle of Evil
Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing
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New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons
On April 15, after 18 months of planning, a new progressive Jewish lobby called J Street was launched as a... more
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Supreme Court OKs Racial Profiling
Either racial profiling is odious and unconstitutional, with personal and social consequences for communities of color -- or... more
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Red State, Green Campaign
This election year, one of the greenest campaigns is being run not in blue Massachusetts or California, but... more
culture
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film
Errol Morris' Myopia
Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema... more
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books
Atheism’s Unholy Trinity
Last spring, Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, flew to California... more
Columnists
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The Third Coast
The Vendetta Against Black Men
American law enforcement has long marginalized black discontent by attributing it to more organized external forces.
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Fox News' Criminal Pundits
Conservatives have created a two-tier system of accountability: one for progressives, the other for themselves and their claimed moral rectitude.
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By the Sewers of Babylon
Oh, the humanity! Oh, the gastronomy! Europe and the United States are suffering a tragic shortage of buffalo mozzarella -- the soft... more
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A Kinder, Gentler Torture
Al-Gwhizzawi told me he thought he would be safe with the Americans 'and have rights' and be treated 'with respect.' He was wrong.
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Tilting at Media Windmills?
In April, the news media began a predictable turn to "image scandals" in the presidential campaign. And then it got worse. ABC's... more
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Obama Not Feelin’ the Love from Smiley
Talk show host Tavis Smiley is putting Barack Obama in a no-win position, going after the presidential candidate for apparently upstaging him.
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