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Women in the United States now hold most of the nation’s managerial positions, and most job growth is currently in jobs traditionally held by women in health care, child care, and food services. Credit: Creative Commons/World Economic Forum/ReSurge International. More

The $815 billion that the United States has spent attacking Iraq could have provided 107.2 million Head Start slots for children for one year, the author writes. Credit: Creative Commons/U.S. Army/Grace Rodriguez. More

In an attempt to gain hegemony in the Middle East, the United States has given military, financial, political, and intelligence aid to vicious dictators throughout the region, the author writes. Credit: Truthout.org/Night Owl City. More

Most Americans want to believe that the United States is a positive force worldwide, but our militaristic foreign policy has caused widespread suffering. Credit: Truthout.org. More

Creative Commons/DonkeyHotey Overturning Citizens United will not stop the super-rich from distorting the democratic process. Only the ESRA can do that. More

United States Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in 2012 to commemorate Denise Levertov. More

Creative Commons/Amigos da Terra Brasil The United States owes much of its current protest culture to influences from grassroots mobilizations led by peasants, indigenous peoples, and women’s groups in Latin America. More

Creative Commons/United States Marine Corps The nonstop trauma of basic training orients young military recruits toward patriarchy and aggression. Here, a twenty-year-old machine gunner practices shooting in Fort Smith, Arkansas. More

Evan Bissell ( theknottedline.us ) “The United States itself was founded on a … belief that the essential meaning of liberty was that we need to be protected against other people,” Peter Gabel writes. As a result, our legal culture sees humans as isolated individuals, not members of a community. More

United States officers use a “water cure” on a Filipino captive in this illustration from a 1902 cover of Life . The U.S. has a long history of resorting to torture during times of war and has consistently relied on the APA for cover. More

UNITE HERE Is it a Jewish obligation to stand up for collective bargaining rights? Here Rabbi Victor Mirelman of West Suburban Temple Har Zion, Rabbi Larry Edwards of Congregation Or Chadash, and Rabbi Brant Rosen of Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation pray and picket in solidarity More

UNITE HERE Workers walk in the cold night to fight for each other’s rights, having taken the difficult and courageous step of calling for a boycott of their own hotels. More