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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?

According to a new report, the pepper spraying of peacefully protesting UC Davis students last year “should and could have been prevented.”

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

The head of the beast can only be cut off at one place—and that’s downtown Manhattan.

Debates about violence threaten to break apart the Occupy movement.

Despite occasional friction, unions and Occupy have found a way to live happily together.

Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.

The government is spending real money on an imaginary war.

The NBA point-guard phenom has sparked a national discussion about racism against Asian-Americans.