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Reach Out and Rob Someone

• By Akito Yoshikane

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Morales Remakes Bolivia

A new constitution grants indigenous people unprecedented rights

• By Alex Van Schaick

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The War Dividend

Will the Pentagon lock the Obama administration into ever-escalating military budgets?

• By Mark Engler

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Operation Infinite Imperialism

Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.

• By Robert S. Eshelman

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The Rise and Fall of Rod Blagojevich

The governor’s apparent misdeeds were audacious even by Illinois standards, Senior Editor David Moberg says during this interview with …

• By David Moberg

• Republic’s Battle Cry

  By David Moberg

  Workers occupying a closed Chicago factory are sending a strong message to Washington: protect workers’ rights.

• El Salvador’s New Left

  By Jacob Wheeler

  Once a guerrilla movement, the FMLN has swapped revolutionary rhetoric for pragmatic politics.

• Beyond Casino Capitalism

  By David Moberg

  Bush let the gamblers run wild. Here’s how Obama can rein them in.

• The Margin Walker

  By Jarrett Dapier and Jeremy Gantz

  Veteran punk rocker Ian MacKaye on what has shocked him most during the Bush Era and why Obama gives him hope

• Illinois Schools On Uneven Field

  By Ben Strauss

  A Chicago educational reform movement keeps fighting to address the suburban-urban funding disparity

• Ban the Cluster Bomb

  By Brian Cook

  More than 100 countries have agreed to stop using them. Guess which one hasn’t

• Dead Man Waiting

  By Alice Kim

  For the second time, a court has stayed the execution of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis

• ‘Milk’ Does the Man Proud

  By Gary Barlow

  The first major Hollywood film portraying a gay historic figure, Milk pushes gays to come out and fight for equal rights

• The Crisis of Wage Theft

  By Kim Bobo

  Billions of dollars in wages are being illegally stolen from millions of workers each and every year, writes Kim Bobo, in this excerpt from her new book Wage Theft in America (The New Press)

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