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Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire is confused about the connection between the Tea Party and conservative cultural populism.

A campaign that brought together African-Americans and undocumented workers stopped an anti-immigrant bill in its tracks.

The president has started talking like a populist. It took the Occupy movement to make him do it.

The single most monstrous mistake of the Bush years—the confusion of military with economic power—has been set in stone.

Topeka, Kansas, decriminalized domestic violence to save money. It’s not the only city to cut services to survivors of abuse, just as the need escalates.

Wake up, sleepyheads: the antichoicers are coming for contraception.

Ari Berman on the GOP voting laws, Robert Gangi on NYPD drug arrests, Alia Malek on the Irvine 11 and Peter Rothberg on Wangari Maathai

The building of the transcontinental railroads is not the story of a managerial revolution, argues Richard White, but of incompetence and corruption rewarded.

If the Supreme Court holds outrageously restrictive new abortion laws, abortion will effectively be impossible to obtain in states like Kansas and South Dakota—while technically leaving Roe on the books.

Wisconsin is just one front in ALEC's most recent war against against revenue and labor unions, part of an ongoing mission to privatize everything.