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Widespread resistance to natural gas fracking is rising above New York's Marcellus Shale.

COLLEGE WINNER: Catastrophe is different when it is personal.

How racism, global economics, and the New Jim Crow fuel black America’s crippling jobs crisis.

The Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress talks about spontaneous demonstrations, his hope for poetry, and why he doesn't read criticism anymore.

The high lonesome sound that touched so many, so deeply, could only have been born of both strife and fight-back in equal proportions.

Energy is ugly. Some forms more so than others, as nuclear near-meltdowns in Japan, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and deaths in a West Virginia coal mine explosion have driven home in the last year.

She has been to the mountaintop—and we must fight harder to save it.

Esther Kaplan on the GOP's message to miners; John Nichols on Bernie Sanders' filibuster; Jennifer O'Mahony on the UK student protests; Michael Tracey on millenials and politics.

Ryan Devereaux on what WikiLeaks tell us about war crimes, Jeff Biggers on coalfield justice and Kate Murphy on discrimination against women in the workplace