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Don’t Frack with Our Water!
Natural gas drilling threatens public health and the environment.
October 2009
COVER STORY
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Building the Left in Harbor Country
We met our neighbors and helped turn rural Michigan blue.
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Uniting, One County at a Time
We helped make rural Oregon a force for progressive change.
Features
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The Frontier of Consciousness
Stacy Horn explores the mysteries of parapsychology and its researchers.
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Taking It to the Streets
Vendors battle bureaucracy for their place in the Second City.
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Mad Men 2.0
America is experiencing a PR revolution that promotes outraged denial over fact-based persuasion.
News
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Making the Illegal Legal
Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time.
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Canada Tightens Border
After Mexican refugee claims nearly triple, Ottawa establishes new visa requirements.
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Chronically Displaced in NOLA
Four years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the disaster continues.
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Michelle Obama, How Does Your Garden Grow?
Critics say EPA standards allowing sewage sludge to become fertilizer are outdated.
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Snapshot: After the Coup
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya demonstrate on August 28, 2009. The United States pressured Honduran coup... more
culture
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books
The Retail Devolution
Two new books explore corporate evil.
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film
Gay Boys in Oil City
The fight for GLBT rights in rural America is far from over.
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The Politics of Enchantment
The quest for a new kinship with nature might just save us.
Columnists
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Capitalist Health Insurance for All
Many 'captive' insurance companies are domiciled in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, making them one-stop tropical shops for tax shelters and self-insurance.
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Public Defender
Sold to the United States for Cash
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bragged that the bounty leaflets were falling from the Afghan sky ‘like snowflakes.’
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Back Talk
Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Minority positions are made to look like majority sentiment. That affects public opinion, which in turn supports those trying to deep-six reform.
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Editorial
Rural America Needs You
Progressives in America must align themselves with those in small towns and rural communities working for change.
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