The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Femi Kuti's Lyrical Politics and the Musical Uprising in Wisconsin
Solidarity singers in Madison haven’t missed a day of music since the 2011 Wisconsin uprising, when the movement for workers’ rights and against crony capitalism took the state by storm.
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Raising the Battle Over Fossil Fuel Exports in the Northwest
A perverse thing is happening in the Pacific Northwest, where energy corporations are trying to slip their fossil fuel exports through some of the most progressive, environmentally conscious communities in North America.
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Monsanto Retreats From Europe, Withdraws EU Bids to Plant GMO Crops
The president of Monsanto in Europe said the biotech giant would withdraw from seeking permission to sell genetically modified seed in the European Union, where the company is deeply unpopular.
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How Net Parties Are Changing the Rules of Politics
The emergence of Partido X (Spain), Partido de la Red (Argentina), Red Sustentável (Brasil) and Wikipartido (Mexico) suggests a new era in politics, where Net parties incorporate open, horizontal processes like today's social movements.
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At Refugee Camps, Syrian Children's Theater and School Inspire Laughter, Strength and Freedom
Scarred and traumatized from war, the young spectators at a theater in Reyhanli are transformed into participants full of energy — creating an invisible army that is more powerful than the military parades.
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Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
The American novelist Theodore Dreiser recognized that “only the mass can get America out of the mess,” something that was true in 1941 and arguably even truer today in 2013.
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Trash the TPP: Why It's Time to Revolt Against the Worst "Trade Agreement" in History
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will make transnational corporations more powerful than government, which is why negotiations are being done entirely in secret, and why we must educate ourselves now to stop it.
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California Prison Hunger Strike Is A Call for Justice
On July 8, nearly 30,000 prisoners across the state began a third hunger strike, which may end up being the largest and longest in California's history.
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Que Se Vaya! Corruption Scandal Threatens to Topple Spain's Prime Minister
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has rejected a growing clamor to resign over a slush-fund scandal that has rocked his party.
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Be The Change: Why Myanmar's Subversive Band "Side Effect" Is Inspiring Freedom
The indie band Side Effect sings about freedom and other politically controversial themes – a sign of the changing times in Myanmar, formerly one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships.
