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To restore the American Dream for the 99 percent, we must first bring the “invisible poor” out of the shadows.

Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

It’s insane that an affair—and not his cockamamie ideas—finished Cain.

The Occupy movement is not a sexual revolution. But in a society organized for alienation, it has made human contact its sword and its shield.

Ari Berman on the GOP voting laws, Robert Gangi on NYPD drug arrests, Alia Malek on the Irvine 11 and Peter Rothberg on Wangari Maathai

Far from winning votes, “Muslim-bashing” alienates large swaths of the electorate—even as it hardens an already hard core on the right.

Will the GOP's latest crusade against unions spark a movement that can fill the space left by those unions which, nationwide, stare down their own demise?

The message out of Fukushima is clear: our own fleet of leaky old nuclear plants should be decommissioned now.

Gunned down in Tucson, shot to death at the Pentagon and blown away at the Holocaust Museum, as well as in Wichita, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Brockton and Okaloosa County, Florida, the landscape of America is littered with bodies.

Inside the bizarre cabal of secretive donors, demagogic bloggers, pseudo-scholars, European neo-fascists, violent Israeli settlers and Republican presidential hopefuls behind the new crusade.