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The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday

The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday

My life as a temp in California’s Inland Empire, the belly of the online shopping beast.

Nov 26, 2013 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson

Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?

Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields? Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?

Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.

Nov 12, 2013 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson

America’s Afghan Victims

America’s Afghan Victims America’s Afghan Victims

Even among staunchly antiwar politicians and pundits, few bother to mention the cost of the war to civilians.

Sep 18, 2013 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss and Nick Turse

How Walmart Helped Make the Newtown Shooter’s AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America

How Walmart Helped Make the Newtown Shooter’s AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America How Walmart Helped Make the Newtown Shooter’s AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America

A massive recent spike in gun sales has boosted Walmart’s flagging profits, making it the top seller of firearms and ammunition nationwide.

Dec 19, 2012 / Feature / George Zornick

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza

How Mitt and Ann made millions—and Mitt’s hedge fund donors made billions—from the auto-industry rescue that he condemned.

Oct 17, 2012 / Feature / Greg Palast

Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F**king Mutt’ [VIDEO]

Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F**king Mutt’ [VIDEO] Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F**king Mutt’ [VIDEO]

A recording of a stop-and-frisk in action shows the racist reality of a prevalent police practice in New York City.

Oct 8, 2012 / Ross Tuttle and Quinn Rose Schneider

Trayvon Martin: What It’s Like to Be a Problem

Trayvon Martin: What It’s Like to Be a Problem Trayvon Martin: What It’s Like to Be a Problem

Despite the end of Jim Crow, it is once again socially, politically and legally acceptable to presume the guilt of nonwhite bodies.

Mar 28, 2012 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry

Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?

Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?

After supporters protested his “sham” trial, Abdulelah Haider Shaye would have been pardoned. Then Obama intervened.

Mar 13, 2012 / Jeremy Scahill

2008 Republican National Convention

The Fox News Effect The Fox News Effect

This is your brain on two weeks of non-stop Fox News.

Mar 7, 2012 / Feature / Marvin Kitman

Russia Flag

Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?

Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.

Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mikhail S. Gorbachev

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