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  • Comment: Ragina Johnson

    The new plunder of Native lands

    The resistance to environmental destruction must be connected with the struggle to defend the rights and sovereignty of Native peoples. May 16, 2013

  • Comment: Keegan O'Brien

    Taking back Pride for Bradley

    LGBT veteran and whistleblower Bradley Manning belongs at the head of San Francisco's LGBT Pride parade. May 16, 2013

  • Comment: Michelle Farber

    Attacked for addressing sexism

    When she pointed out sexism at her campus, a University of Connecticut student became the target of abuse. May 15, 2013

  • Comment: Brian Ward

    Selling off Wounded Knee

    The site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890--land considered sacred by the Lakota tribe--just went up for sale. May 15, 2013

  • Comment: Elizabeth Schulte

    It's not Plan B if you can't get it

    Why is Barack Obama's Justice Department appealing a judge's order that would make the morning-after pill more accessible to all women? May 14, 2013

  • Comment: Marty Kirchner

    Confronting the anti-immigrant backlash

    Activists are organizing to defend day laborers in New Jersey from harassment by anti-immigrant groups. May 14, 2013

  • Analysis: Nicole Colson

    Obama's false promises about Guantánamo

    Barack Obama has had more than four years to close Guantánamo--but it's taken a hunger strike by prisoners to get even another promise. May 13, 2013

  • Comment: Nick Burt

    Obama's favorite billionaire

    The president's nominee for commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, is involved in a constellation of ugly bourgeois misdoings. May 13, 2013

  • Comment: Roberto Meneses

    Legalizing exploitation

    The president of Day Laborers United explains why he's fed up with the politicians' promises of "immigration reform." May 13, 2013

  • Comment: Carl Finamore

    Bankrupt airlines cash in

    What happens after bankruptcy? For multimillion-dollar airlines, it means mergers and profiting at workers' expense. May 13, 2013

  • Comment: Marlene Martin

    One injustice follows another

    A victim of California's cruel "three strikes" law finally won his freedom--only to have another injustice heaped on him. May 9, 2013

  • Comment: Peter Rugh

    Only you can prevent fracking

    An environmental artist is being threatened with fines and jail time for using Smokey the Bear in an anti-fracking campaign. May 9, 2013

  • Report: Matt Corpolongo

    ALEC is not OK

    Hundreds of union members turned out to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council on May 2 in Oklahoma City. May 9, 2013

  • Analysis: Elizabeth Schulte

    Leaving women with no options

    Whatever the outcome of the trial of a Philadelphia doctor, the bigger crime is what women seeking abortions had to endure. May 8, 2013

  • Comment: Gary Lapon

    The real disability myth

    An episode of This American Life repeated smears about government disability programs usually mouthed by right-wingers. May 8, 2013

  • Report: Alan Maass

    Chicago students take a seat and a walk

    Chicago students organized a sit-in at an elementary school slated for closure and a walkout against firings at a high school. May 7, 2013

  • Comment: Stanley Rosario

    Facing an occupying army in New York

    The suit against "stop-and-frisk" has given public housing residents a chance to describe their experiences with the NYPD. May 7, 2013

  • Roundtable

    Standing strong against the NYPD

    Two leading voices in the movement to confront police abuse and violence in New York City talk about the challenges and opportunities ahead. May 2, 2013

  • Analysis: Peter Rugh

    Big Brother is watching...our kids' test scores

    With the latest corporate intrusion into public education, Rupert Murdoch will be able to read your child's report card. May 2, 2013

  • Comment

    From red to blue in Texas?

    Political analysts say the tide is turning against the Republican Party in Texas. But how different would the Democrats be? May 2, 2013

  • Comment: Shaun Harkin

    Solidarity has no borders

    Capitalists are dependent on migration across borders--but they also rely on restrictions on immigration as one means to divide and conquer. May 1, 2013

  • Comment: Josh Kilby

    R.I. approves equal marriage

    Rhode Island took a final step toward joining the rest of New England in guaranteeing equal marriage rights. April 30, 2013

  • Statement

    May Day for the MAP boycotters

    Seattle teachers who are boycotting the MAP test are asking support during a day of solidarity scheduled for May Day. April 29, 2013

  • From our archive: Lee Sustar

    The lies they tell about Islam

    The U.S. government's attitude toward Islam and Muslims has always depended first and foremost on its foreign policy objectives. April 26, 2013

  • Comment: Nicole Colson

    Hunger-striking for freedom and dignity

    More than half of detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay are on hunger strike against indefinite detention. April 25, 2013

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