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The protests in Wisconsin have inspired a new generation of candidates—and they’re winning.

Twelve red states account for 70 percent of all state and local public sector jobs lost since 2010.

It's not just Newt Gingrich’s crazy idea. Right-wing legislators are busy chipping away at restrictions on youth employment.

This holiday season, we celebrate the most inspiring activists, organizations and politicians who are fighting for the 99 percent.

One of the last big encampments left, Occupy Boston is strugging to square its inclusive philosophy with the realities of urban life.

Gitmo in the present millennium is no departure at all from the American tradition in Guantánamo Bay.

A Republican proposal in Pennsylvania would change the way electoral votes are counted—and the results could spell Obama's defeat in 2012.

Readers respond to the August 15/22 special issue on sports—only the second in the history of the magazine.

We nurses see the concrete health effects of an economy in freefall.

Ten years after the original publication of the now-classic Nicked and Dimed, things have gotten much worse for those in the bottom third of our country's income distribution.