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Peter Kornbluh on Obama and Cuba, Salamishah Tillet on boycotting marriage, George Zornick on Eric Griego v. Wall Street crooks, plus a new project on poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich and the Institute for Policy Studies.

Response to Tom Hayden’s “Participatory Democracy,” with Hayden’s reply, and to Linda Darling-Hammond’s “Redlining Our Schools.” Plus a couple historical corrections.

Mark Jordan and Jay Michaelson seek hope for gay religious practice in heretical churches and the Hebrew Bible.

The government is spending real money on an imaginary war.

Law enforcement appears to be regularly sending subpoenas to social media companies. This time, the target found out about it.

George Zornick on Keystone pipeline politics, Liliana Segura on Alabama’s death row “mailroom mix-up,” Daniel Denvir on Pennsylvania’s fracking fights, Dave Zirin on Muhammad Ali at 70

An increasing number of local coalitions are teaming up to oppose the controversial immigration enforcement program.

Hit by the double whammy of poverty and austerity, a West Oakland school that once served children well is struggling.

Memories of a journey that was more than a trip.