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Incisive reporting on elections, primaries, voting rights and the party process.

Environmental journalism that integrates the path for sustainable lifestyles and an ethical diet.

Inspiring stories of people’s efforts to reshape and reinvest in our local economy.

Going to the front lines of the nationwide effort to privatize and undermine the public education system.

Going beyond headlines, labels and caricatures to find the social, political, spiritual common ground upon which we can build a shared politics.

Making the case for the general welfare of American society and the world at large.

Lifting the voices of journalists working from the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to make a world free of suffering.

Covering the disastrous war on drugs and mass incarceration it produces—and the growing movement to reform it.