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Race

How a 19th-Century Whaleship Can Save the 'White Working Class'

by Paul Street

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Time for a Fair Trade System After NAFTA Talks Falter

Democratic National Committee Shakeup

Sanders' Best Lines Against Cruz During Their Debate

Spain Set to Strip Catalonia of Powers

I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

DOJ Tries to Stop Abortion for Undocumented Teen

Consciousness May Extend Past Declaration of Death

How to Prevent Police From Stripping Citizens' Rights (Video)

Politics

Existing Law May Not Solve Presidential Crisis

by Bill Blum

Environment

Did an Obsolete, Poorly Maintained Power Grid Spark California Fires?

by Harvey Wasserman

Activism

For One Abuse Survivor, Investigation’s Door Is Sealed

by Laura Robinson

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Mr. Fish

#MeToo

by Mr. Fish

The Son Also Rises

by Mr. Fish

iMageddon

by Mr. Fish

Environment

Corporate TV Drops the Ball on Climate Change

by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

Director Brett Morgen's New Take on Jane Goodall

With No Clean Water, Some Puerto Ricans Tap Toxic Waste Sites

by Kali Holloway / AlterNet

Belief & Religion

Mel White: Evangelicals Do 'Terrible Damage' to U.S.

by Ryan Kohls / What I Wanna Know

Faces of Pain, Faces of Hope

by Chris Hedges

Hours After Vegas Massacre, the U.N. Day of Nonviolence

by Eric Ortiz

Scheer Intelligence

Director Brett Morgen's New Take on Jane Goodall

Norman Lear: Self-Described 'Bleeding-Heart Conservative' (Audio & Transcript)

From Killing Germans in WWII to Revolutionizing TV, Norman Lear Reflects on His Life

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Opinion

Political Kidnappings Have Become a Billion-Dollar Industry (Video)

by Eric Ortiz

Cartoons

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

by Mike Luckovich

Trumptasia (Video)

Trumptasia (Video)

by Mark Fiore

Hard

Hard

by Jeff Danziger

#MeToo

#MeToo

by Mr. Fish