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October 2016[edit]
   | -3 | How the New Zealand Labour Party's gender quota rules may cost them an electorate. |
| 5 | Before the Flood: National Geographics documentary on the dangers of climate change and possible solutions to it. |
| 8 | John Oliver explains why schools are more segregated in the US than ever. |
| -2 | How the New Deal’s Home Owners’ Loan Corporation practice of red lining fueled housing discrimination against African Americans. |
| 6 | How Democrats killed their Populist soul. |
| 4 | How the police generate false confessions. |
| 1 | The quiet desperation of millennials. |
| 2 | Alt right conspiracy image generator, exactly what it says on the tin. |
| 6 | How the largest U.S. prison health care provider puts lives in danger. |
| 6 | Prisoners should be covered under the First Amendment. |
| 23 | I’m A Muslim Reformer. Why Am I Being Smeared as an ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’? by Maajid Nawaz. |
| 9 | A no-fly zone in Syria isn’t a humanitarian response, it’s a call to war. |
| 22 | Obama is trying to fix the war on drugs with clemency, but it won't make a dent in mass incarceration. |
| 15 | The insidious, and legal, way industry infiltrated Congress. |
| 11 | Compare the coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo and it tells you a lot about the propaganda we consume. |
| 3 | The American Blob is already oozing into Syria. |
| 21 | How half of America lost its fucking mind. |
| 10 | Why won't anyone admit that America is fighting 5 ground wars? |
| 20 | A train wreck of lies, bias, politics and stupidity: what the Brexit referendum can tell us about how to make politics less dumb (self promotion warning) |
| 7 | Israel won't lose its Jewish identity if they let in the Palestinian refugees. |
| 12 | How a small Virginian county used legal tricks to deny Muslims a place of worship. |
| 9 | How a handful of Weimar émigrés came to have an outsized influence on the ideology of the American right. |
| 16 | I won $104 million for blowing the whistle on my company, but somehow I was the only one who went to jail. |
| 1 | Max Blumenthal responds to Gershom Gorenberg. |
| 10 | Bob Dylan, the American Left, and what we have lost. |
| 6 | Haiti’s natural disasters have long been exacerbated by human-made ones: imperialism and global capitalism. |
| 3 | A quarter century after I was arrested by Turkish police, things have only got worse for Kurdistan. |
| 9 | Why U.S. press freedom may not survive 2016. |
| 4 | How the US government set up a trap for Black youth. |
| 14 | How British anti-racist group infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan |
| 1 | How the US likely assisted the Saudi bombing of a Yemeni funeral. |
| 4 | Barrett Brown writes about how he entertains himself by playing D&D. |
| 11 | Journalist Amy Goodman shouldn't be arrested for covering Dakota pipeline story. |
| 13 | "Before I wrote a book on Trump, I wrote one about the Catholic priest abuse scandals. And I see a heck of a lot of similarities." |
| -13 | Everything is probably going to be fine. |
| 11 | How a facial recognition mismatch can ruin your life. |
| 19 | Politicians are celebrating a decline in the poverty rate. There’s just one problem: it doesn’t really measure poverty. |
| 5 | Former CIA detainees describe previously unknown torture tactic: A makeshift electric chair. |
| 5 | It is time to rethink the role police play in US schools. |
| 3 | A critical look at how adoption saffest Native Americans. |
| 21 | Islamophobia just drove this boy and his family out of America. |
| 9 | Occupation denial is pushing me out of my Jewish community |
| 5 | Black African immigrants, race and police brutality in America. |
| -51 | World War 3 Threats Loom As Putin Orders All Russian Officials To Bring Family Members Living Abroad Back Home |
| 45 | Donald Trump Isn’t the Presidential Candidate We Should Be Worried About: The real danger is the smarter, more capable neo-fascist politician who will inevitably rise in his wake. |
| 1 | Why Kibbutzism isn’t socialism. |
| 16 | How Marx's ideas can help us to understand the economic and political inequality of our time. |
| 0 | A look at how activists on both sides of US-Mexico border are converging against US state violence. |
| 10 | How U.S. torture left legacy of damaged minds. |
| 6 | Afghanistan is an infinite quagmire. |
| 4 | Obama could end the slaughter in Yemen within hours. |
| 9 | The strategic considerations for each side in the latest round of minor Israeli-Gazan warfare. |
| 17 | Trans Girl Periods. Yes, that’s right. No, I’m being serious. Just read the damn article. |
| 0 | War hawks are sensing an opening in Syria. |
| 7 | How a former reporter is helping big oil and gas frack the news. |
| 3 | Latin America is regressing back towards neoliberalism. |
| 16 | Drudge Report’s playing down and politicizing of Hurricane Matthew was ‘deplorable’ |
| 11 | When the cops take your urine by force. |
| 8 | Nuclear war is becoming thinkable. |
| 10 | The not-so-wholesome reality behind the making of your meal kit. |
| -9 | How European elites set up Greece for a fascist takeover. |
| 0 | Inside DuPont and Monsanto's migrant labor camps. |
| 30 | The dark truth about Theresa May's Brexit strategy: timing the process around the 2020 election rather than national interests |
| 16 | The triumph of the oligarchs. |