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Feature
Time to Stand Up and Fight for a More Perfect Union
The irony of American politics is that the right is far weaker than it appears and the left far stronger than it asserts.
Robert L. Borosage
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How to Build a Powerful People’s Movement
If we can do it in North Carolina, don’t tell me we can’t do it across America.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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Winning the Fight for Public Opinion
We have to stop looking to institutions and politicians and invest organizing resources in neighbors, family and community.
Carlos Saavedra
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How to Write a New Organizing Playbook
By starting with workers at the local level, we can bargain with employers despite weak labor laws.
Sarita Gupta
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What if We Treated Labor Like a Startup?
We should move money toward innovation in the labor movement.
David Rolf
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How the Working Families Party Is Already Changing Electoral Politics
The debate over endorsing Governor Cuomo showed the party’s power.
Daniel Cantor
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How to Organize After Occupy Wall Street
Former occupiers are building a movement with lessons learned from OWS.
Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Max Berger
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Organizing Where We Have the Most Leverage: in the Cities
We can do it by calling for reforms that shift control of the economy away from corporate giants.
George Goehl
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If Jerry Brown Is So Green, Why Is He Allowing Fracking in California?
The California governor wants to be known as a climate leader. But he has said yes to fracking—for now.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Jed Rakoff and the Lonely Fight for Wall Street Justice
The federal judge is waging a one-man war on bank-friendly SEC settlements.
Sasha Abramsky
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Editorial
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Q&A: Winona LaDuke
A conversation with the two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate.
Laura Flanders
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Against Intervention in Iraq
American military involvement would inflame, not ease, Iraq’s sectarian divisions.
The Editors
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Column
Can a Liberal Mayor Be Financially Responsible?
According to the right-wing media’s script, of course not.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
India’s Missing Women
Why does the belief that women are safest when secluded still hold sway in India?
Gaiutra Bahadur
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Chelsea Dreams
Artists have become the shock troops of gentrification, even at the Chelsea Hotel.
Richard Kreitner
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Generations and Repetitions
The story of country music is not love and happiness but love and work.
Joshua Clover
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No Escape
A new batch of teen films deliver their blows and soften them in a single gesture.
Stuart Klawans
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3329
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto