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This week: New York City’s employed homeless, the assassination of a leftist Greek rapper and the unintended consequences of urban densification.
A wave of anti-gay laws have brought Russia’s LGBT movement into the international spotlight, but activists are divided over strategies, including proposed boycotts.
News out of Brazil and Qatar put World Cup preparations in a horrible new light.
In return for allowing the debt ceiling to rise, House Republicans are promoting the agenda voters rejected in 2012.
Vast carnage in Iraq as Syrian spillover threatens to reignite Iraq’s own civil war.
WRITING CONTEST FINALIST: It is up to the American people to insist that corporations are not people, money is not speech and elections are not up for sale.
A call for regional disarmament in the Middle East would bring scrutiny to Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons supply.
Pay attention when conservatives talk to one another: they reveal their sedulous plans.
Eight exceptional(ly dumb) American achievements of the twenty-first century.
Before there was a civil war and before Syria became the world’s chessboard, there was a peaceful uprising for freedom and dignity.
Waiting lists for food aid have been growing for years—now almost 15 percent of the nation's elderly don't have enough to eat.
Americans remain mostly blind to the abusive treatment of terror suspects on US soil.
Is AmeriCorps a lifeline for debt-burdened young Americans—or one more example of relentless government cost-cutting?
President Obama’s speech at the UN reflected extraordinary shifts in global politics and the possibility of a new approach to US-Iran relations.
For half a century, the Institute for Policy Studies has been an invaluable font of progressive ideas and action. We look forward to the next half-century.
He’s saying the right things. Will the US Conference of Catholic Bishops listen?
At its LA convention, organized labor vowed to reinvigorate organizing and strengthen progressive alliances. And not a moment too soon.
He seems like a lovely, modest man, but there's no sign he will change the church’s stance on issues that matter to women.
As the wealth gap grows, so have the number of ways a woman can sell her body. What is the cost?
When liberals experience the trauma of a mass shootings, they feel from the bottom of our hearts: we need more gun control. When conservatives do, they feel: we need less.
Tens of thousands of grocery workers in the Northwest may soon be on strike as part of a fight for healthcare benefits and living wages.
Campaign consultants and health insurance agents stand to gain from sabatoging the rollout of health reform.
Is sensory deprivation an escape from or toward the fatigue and distractions of the digital life?
