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Finally, Native American voices are being heard by the media in protest of the name “Redskins.”
The Boss pays homage to a celebrated Chilean political folk-singer who fell victim to the US-backed coup in 1973.
The late Saul Landau spent years investigating the assassination in Washington, DC, of his friend, Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean foreign minister. What he found pointed right back to DC.
About the queen and king of US cryptic crosswords
With the imminent threat of a US military intervention seemingly receding, the world's focus should be on aiding the increasingly desperate Syrian population.
A previously unknown “secret bank” funds massive projects to overturn Obamacare, mangle Social Security and advance austerity.
Roxane Gay talks with the author about his writing and the work that writing does.
Why saying no to Syria matters (and it's not about Syria).
Next week marks the two-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Here are what some of the best and brightest organizers are working on now.
One year after Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a previous version of the legislation, the California state senate has passed a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.
Elizabeth O'Bagy’s brief tenure as an “expert” on Syrian rebels comes to an inglorious end.
Union presidents challenged the Obama administration to fix Affordable Care Act issues which they warned could devastate their health plans.
On its second anniversary, a sense of failure pervades the Occupy movement, as many core activists have moved on with their lives. But was it really all for naught?
Defying stereotypes, the Model Alliance gets serious about organizing—and writes its own law to protect the most vulnerable models: children and young teens.
Special interests dominate Washington and undermine our democracy.
Hanna Rosin preemptively declares the death of a system that still shapes our workplaces and our lives.
Declassified documents reveal the complicity of the Nixon administration in Allende’s ouster.
Saul helped ignite a political awareness and a passion for history in me.
President Obama can now embark on a new foreign policy, one that rejects military interventionism in favor of an engaged internationalism.
Why his campaign for NYC mayor has ignited the passion of New York’s progressives.
A diplomatic solution is possible.
Syrians fleeing the fighting at home have found themselves targeted amid Egypt’s political upheaval.
The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn.
Life here has shrunk politically, geographically and socially, with the vast majority of the public high on fascistic nationalism.
