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Why Movements Matter
Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.
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Gone With the 2010 Win
White Democratic elected officials have vanished from Dixie. Can Southern Dems rebound as a black-and-brown party?
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Fancy Talk
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Barack Obama's Theory of Power
Why the president's bipartisan, detached use of power hasn't worked.
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The Test Generation
What happens in the classroom when a state begins to evaluate all teachers, at every grade level, based on how well they "grow" their students' test scores? Colorado is about to find out.
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Books Behind Bars
What are wardens thinking when they censor magazines and books?
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Life on the List
Does publicly posting names of convicted sex offenders actually reduce the number of sexual offenses?
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A New Union Contract
While public-sector unions fight for survival, Bob King proposes to rebuild the United Auto Workers for a new, and more vexing, century.
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Before the Revolution
For the past half-decade, Egyptian workers, journalists, and bloggers have increasingly, and bravely, been standing up to their government.
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The Serfs of Arkansas
Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry -- only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.
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Signing Away Our Rights
Increasingly, corporations trick workers and consumers into giving up their legal rights by forcing arbitration of disputes -- and they are getting help from friendly courts.
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Business Is Booming
America's leading corporations have found a way to thrive even if the American economy doesn't recover. This is very, very bad news.
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Blame It on Blue
Everything, apparently, is Democrats' fault.
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When Should We Retire? Two Views
With so much focus on the deficit, many assume entitlement programs should be cut. But there is a progressive argument for raising the retirement age, and one for lowering it.
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The Rent Trap
In the wake of the foreclosure crisis, should we be encouraging people to abandon the dream of homeownership?
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Dems to Watch
A rising crop of Democrats looks to the middle.
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The Progressive Agenda Scorecard
This magazine declared the dawn of 2009 "Our Moment," but how much was achieved before the 2010 election?
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The Next Banking Crisis
The foreclosure mess may force a solution to the deeper economic drag of underwater mortgages and zombie banks.
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Too Small to Save
Did the nation's largest community bank collapse because of its social-justice mission -- or its financial ambitions?
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