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

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

The government is spending real money on an imaginary war.

The attempted eviction of Occupy LA has been peaceful so far, an example of how local authorities can make different decisions.

A health risk assessment required by California state law was never completed, but that hasn’t stopped police from using the weapon against thousands of citizens, including the students at UC Davis.

Occupy Wall Street has exposed a system that regards people as disposable, but not usually so literally.

Detroit stands as a symbol of the destruction deindustrialization left in its wake, but new initiatives in the Midwestern city have made it a leader in sustainable living, and have laid the foundations for the next great American revolution.

Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.

Peter Dreier's list of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century honored the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream. But his list could only include a handful of all those who have contributed to this tradition. We asked our readers to nominate the American progressives who have made the biggest difference in the twentieth century.

Unemployed and stranded on the sidelines of a job crisis.