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His experience as a student activist at Hamilton College cemented his desire to pursue a career in public interest law.

Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

For Kim and Reed, Obama's caving to Republican pressure on extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans was a defeat, even if it resulted in some good results for progressives. But if the Democrats are compromising their values now, how does this bode for upcoming legislative battles?

With Fair Game—the new film based on their experience—now in theaters, Plame and Wilson dropped by Brave New Studios to talk about the film and the Bush administration's culpability for the leak.

Profits are booming, but Mott's is demanding benefit cuts. Workers are fighting back.

In his Letters from Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa treats the balance of form and content as a moral imperative.

The double book-keeping of Christopher Hitchens.

The mainstream media's long-time kid-glove treatment of Andrew Breitbart led directly to the unjustified ouster of Shirley Sherrod.

Nation columnist, Melissa Harris-Lacewell is angry with the administration, the NAACP, and blogger Andrew Breitbart, but maybe some good can come out of all of this.

Workers tapping rubber at the Firestone plantation in Liberia are struggling for better wages and working conditions—and pushing their employer to stop polluting the land and water they rely on.