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As part of The Nation's mayoral candidate series, de Blasio gives his views on how to tackle economic inequality.

Tired of their lives in other people’s hands, window makers started a co-op.

In the third walkout of its kind in five weeks, workers across the city are demanding a living wage of $15 per hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

Climate change and its political repercussions.

Syrian soldier

“Humanitarian” intervention would only deepen the humanitarian disaster.

Student reading

Resistance is growing, and with good reason—test mania delivers few benefits and often harms the students it’s meant to help. 

John Nichols on CISPA’s opponents, Cos Tollerson on Brazil’s stadium controversy, Allison Kilkenny on Occupy the Pipeline

Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.

Media observers horrified at the thought of a Koch takeover of the Tribune Company are more sanguine about Murdoch. What are they thinking?

Anti-immigrant poster in the United Kingdom

The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.

The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.

Once Mark Sanford won the Republican primary, he was all but certain to win in a district drawn to elect Republicans. That’s how it works in America.

Once again, as in run-up to Iraq war, McClatchy casts doubt on unproven WMD evidence.

Julian Assange

Corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly, and it’s not just Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative.

It just might work. But the bombs-away crowd isn’t happy.

Effects of global warming in Spain

James Hansen bravely told the truth even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him.

Brain scan

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.

photo of Friedrich Hayek in his study, 1960

How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.

Taylor Swift at the Z100 Jingle Ball, New York City, 2012

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

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