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Five lessons for progressives from our first century of income taxes.

Bradley Manning's actions are not unlike those of Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon Papers helped to expose the government’s lies and end the Vietnam War.

Italy's Five Star Movement owes a big debt to the left – but won votes by rejecting it

Colbert: The War on Terror turns 12. Hannity v Ellison. How realistic were Jurassic Park's velociraptors? Honor Trayvon Martin: build the movement. Elizabeth Warren questions Ben Bernanke. Movie: A Place at the Table.

Probably the best movie you’ll see this year that was smuggled out of Iran in a cake.

The crisis in Mali, Hillary Clinton’s legacy, and why Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay prison.

Here come the contract demands that the Philadelphia School District would like to cram down the throat of the city's unionized school teachers. The so-called City of Brotherly Love is on the brink of setting a new standard in squeezing middle- class workers to death. It's not like we haven't seen this story before: Working men and women asked to take a sizable pay cut...and work longer hours...and pay more for shrinking benefits.

Margrit Adler Pittman, an activist journalist with a lifelong commitment to the fight for peace, democracy and social and economic justice, died February 4 in New York City at the age of 93.

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Repeal Sequestration to Disarm Hostage Takers