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Over the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become a strong grassroots force. Now it's time to develop a unified legislative strategy that can shape the national debate.

A DoD study group has determined that repealing the policy will not damage the military.

Up to three $100,000 prizes will honor young innovators, organizations advancing positive social change

Peter Dreier's list of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century honored the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream. But his list could only include a handful of all those who have contributed to this tradition. We asked our readers to nominate the American progressives who have made the biggest difference in the twentieth century.

This is the final chapter in the long and winding right-wing witch hunt against an organization that stood strong for poor and working people.

The J Street conflict, the life of a career professional military officer and the mail.

California voters should pass Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana for adults.

On Huffington Post, Isabel Macdonald asks whether the spectacle of Lou Dobbs's undocumented worker hypocrisy will force Obama to face this country's own immigration injustices?

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers signed a historic agreement between farmworkers and a major grower.

The Nation's Richard Kim speaks with the hosts of Democracy Now! about the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, America's culture of homophobia and how politicians continue to fan the flames of hate.