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What if creating a more just world requires a radical reimagining of our political and economic system?

Feminism is not any single person or outcome, it’s a practice, and a far more active one than Valenti gives credit for.

Prosecution of whistleblowers, dragnet seizure of phone records, the threatened criminalization of basic news-gathering—it’s dangerous for the media, and dangerous for democracy.

The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem—the law’s failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital age.

From student walkouts in Philly and Chicago to union organizing and MOOCs in California, here are the latest reports by our student activist/writers.

Reports of President Obama’s demise turn out to be greatly exaggerated.

Social media companies say consumers’ loss of privacy is just the cost of doing business. But what would happen if they actually had to bargain with users on equal footing?

From stopping wage theft to organizing carwasheros, victories have come from meeting workers where they live.

This third-term governor is rethinking healthcare and education with holistic, community-based programs.

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.