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If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.

Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.

Social movements must bring the creative energy of protest culture to electoral campaigns.

In California, Michigan, Alabama and beyond, voters came out for organized labor.

Without the youth vote, Obama woud have lost Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania—and the election.

Her clear-as-a-bell progressive convictions mobilized a massive grassroots base.

Meet the man who could be New York’s first transgender City Council member.

The author and activist doesn't have a utopia to offer, but rather, warns of a dystopia to avoid.