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Sending debt peonage, poverty and freaky weather into the arena.

As the Keystone XL battle has shown, the blue-green alliance is in trouble—and only a deeper kind of solidarity can rescue it.

Residents in four New York City districts had the chance to allocate funding for community improvement themselves. Can participatory budgeting make American democracy less lonely?

How the big energy companies plan to turn the United States into a third world petro-state.

Laurent Dubois’s Hati: The Aftershocks of History.

What if the role of the new US special operations team at work near Iran were reversed?

The moment couldn't have been more ripe for a real advance in the fight against climate change.

The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.

A letter of thanks to Mohammed Bouazizi, the young man whose death set off a year of revolutions.

The aesthetic illusions of a Korean artist.