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Just after its six-month anniversary, the last occupation in New England was evicted. Freed from maintaining camp life, will the occupiers' momentum return?

 Through participatory budgeting, can Occupy bring the movement for direct democracy into the heart of government power?

Michael Blanding on the Vermont Yankee power plant, Greg Kaufman on wage theft in Florida and John Nichols on Bernie Sanders's fight to save the USPS

Joe Hill, Joe Pa, Tebow and Wee Brains.

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

It took opportunistic politicians and ridiculous, shameful language on religious exemptions, but gay and lesbian New Yorkers can finally tie the knot.

Between a fifth and a third of the white population remained loyal to Britain in 1776. Why?

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.

At the utopian community of Fruitlands, vegetables were not only eaten. They were also imitated.