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  • Comment: Clayton Plake

    Beaten to death by Bakersfield police

    David Silva's death after a savage beating by Bakersfield sheriff's deputies is sparking outrage, despite alleged efforts by officials to cover it up. May 21, 2013

  • Interview: Sherise McDaniel

    Fighting for our schools and neighborhoods

    A parent leader of the struggle to save one of 54 schools on the chopping block in Chicago talks about what's at stake. May 21, 2013

  • Comment: Leela Yellesetty

    Brought out into the open

    Angelina Jolie's announcement should open up a public discussion about lack of access to life-saving health care. May 21, 2013

  • Report: Jay Saper

    Of checkpoints and pancakes

    Students at Middlebury College set up a checkpoint outside a dining hall to draw attention to the issue of Israeli apartheid. May 21, 2013

  • Comment: Lichi D'Amelio

    NYC judge lets a killer walk

    A New York City judge has tossed out manslaughter charges against the NYPD officer who killed Ramarley Graham. May 20, 2013

  • Comment: Jesse Hagopian

    MAP boycott scores a victory

    Seattle Public Schools waved the white flag with an announcement that high schools can opt out of the MAP standardized test. May 20, 2013

  • Obituary: Malcolm Shabazz

    The memory of both Malcolms

    Like his grandfather, Malcolm Shabazz died far too young and with far too much unfinished work in front of him. May 20, 2013

  • 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

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