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The veteran LGBT activist is fighting for an Assembly seat in California, but she faces tough opposition from a current representative who moved into her district and who is backed by Speaker John Perez.

Republicans are turning to tired, failed strategies in an effort to alienate both black and white voters from President Obama.

The first Feminist General Assembly is a model for how OWS can—and can’t—work alongside established social movements.

Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, imagining that the author would find cause for hope—and dismay—in today's political culture.

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?

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Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence.

It doesn't actually matter if the Coop boycotts Israel or not. Just having the debate is a symbolic victory for the pro-boycott camp. 

A former ACLU attorney points out that corporate spending on political campaigns is not “free speech” deserving First Amendment protection.

How, exactly, did she turn a relentless right-wing assault into a source of renewed political power for Planned Parenthood?