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Sanders’s laser-like focus on inequality is perfectly insync with the nation’s current political climate.
BY THEO ANDERSON Soon the Right will have to abandon its head-in-the-sand strategy–but its next tactic may be more dangerous. BY KATE ARONOFF A hawk’s eye-view of global warming. BY TODD MILLER AND ALEX DEVOID Blumenthal offers an unembellished look at the misery on the ground in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014. BY BEN LORBER The New York Times is wrong: consumers eating grapes and mandarin oranges aren’t the ones really guilty of contributing to California’s water shortage. BY JIM NAURECKAS Jeb Bush’s Presidential Announcement Was Simultaneously Audacious and Underwhelming Bush’s presidential campaign announcement was high on the rhetoric. Unfortunately, it was also inconsistent with everything we already know about Jeb Bush. BY DAVID SIROTA The activists behind the group are known for pranking big corporate and governmental institutions. Now they have created a tool to help others do the same. BY MICHAEL PAYNE The new black comedy about nuclear war misses its target. BY EILEEN JONES |
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| Chicago Charter School Students Say UNO Teacher Was Fired for Union Activism
It’s not every day that students walk out of school to demand the reinstatement of a fired teacher–let alone one they claim was fired for helping unionize the school. BY CRYSTAL STELLA BECERRIL |
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A new bill passed by the North Carolina Senate could prevent evidence of animal cruelty or labor violations on factory farms from ever leaving the workplace. BY DAYTON MARTINDALE
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