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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

WORKING IN THESE TIMES

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

RURAL AMERICA

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