Features
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Silicon Valley's Labor Uprising
Unions are spreading like wildfire through tech’s low-wage workforce MORE
By s.e. smith
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NDP Rising Star Nathan Cullen on How Republican Tactics are Infecting Canadian Politics, and More
The rising star of the socialist-leaning New Democratic Party discusses how Canadian Conservatives are learning from their neighbors to the south. MORE
By Joel Bleifuss
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U.S. Prisons and Jails Are Threatening the Lives of Pregnant Women and Babies
Our 6-month investigation reveals the horrific and shameful conditions facing pregnant prisoners—and the inhumane treatment they receive. MORE
By Victoria Law
Act Locally
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The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped the Mayor's Mansion
The action was a bid to draw attention to what the UN has called a violation of human rights MORE
By Lauren Gaynor
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Asylum Seekers Face Kafkaesque Ordeal at U.S.-Mexico Border
Migrants have to choose between keeping their families together and finding safety. MORE
By John Washington
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From Hashtag to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter
Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter. MORE
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Culture
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film
'Welcome to Leith' Charts A White Supremacist Attempt to Take Over a Tiny North Dakota Town
A new documentary by Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker explores a firefight between American individualism and the public good MORE
By Michael Atkinson
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books
Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad and the Reactionary
Patrick McGilligan’s unauthorized biography of the film legend, updated through 2015, suffers from bastard fatigue: There are just too many examples of Eastwood’s perfidy. MORE
By Eileen Jones
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From the Old Country
In Elena Ferrante's Neopolitan Novels, Women's Rage Is Both Pardonable and Malevolent
The mysterious, wildly popular Italian novelist excels at crises and contradictions MORE
By Jane Miller
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How California Birthed the Modern Right Wing
Many of 20th-century conservatism’s tricks were honed in 1930s agribusiness’s fight against farmworkers MORE
By Chris Lehmann
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The Surefire Formula for Doing Good?
The altruists profiled in Strangers Drowning have made huge personal sacrifices for others. But what should we make of their extremely individualistic approach? MORE
By Joanna Scutts
Columnists
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Back Talk
These Jimmy Carter Speeches Show Why He Was a Radical President
Carter’s forgotten legacy: his radical speeches while in office. We’ve shifted so far to the right that it’s astounding to recall that a sitting president talked like this. MORE
By Susan J. Douglas
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Editorial
Is The Donald the New Ronald?
Reagan’s candidacy was a punchline until it wasn’t. MORE
By Joel Bleifuss
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The Third Coast
Meet the Group of African-American Organizers Building Black Support for Bernie Sanders
Will grassroots organizing within the black electorate be able to challenge Clinton’s hegemony? MORE
By Salim Muwakkil