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Legislators who are leaving the corporate front group ALEC deserve applause.

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

Groups long committed to challenging inequality and the power of big banks are joining the Occupy movement, in a mutually reinforcing relationship.

Meet the secret bases that make up the backbone of a new American robotic way of war.

George Zornik on the Keystone XL pipeline, Natasja Sheriff on the link between climate change and conflict and John Nichols on Dick Cheney’s new memoir

An incomplete list.

John Ikerd on how we cannot continue to grow at the rate we've been growing in past.

The news media these days look to outperform one another in their showings of concern for the lost battalion of America’s unemployed. Consult any newspaper, wander the Internet or the television talk-show circuit, and at the top of the column or the hour the headline is jobs.

As the showdown in Wisconsin demonstrates, progressives must embrace the government workers’ struggle as our own—or else.