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Amid the disappointments of Obama's first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers' rights.

This fall is becoming a breakthrough season for the emerging social movement for climate justice.

Why the White House agenda is incomplete, and why that's not all bad.

Rebecca Solnit explores how our responses to disasters can point the way to a better society. (A review of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.)

How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.

G20 leaves needed reforms for global economy off the table.

A Foreign Policy In Focus roundtable.

An entry for the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.

The prospect of progressive leadership coming to power in El Salvador's March 15 presidential elections should prompt new U.S. policy toward Central America.

A Joint Report on the 2009 Presidential Elections in El Salvador, With a Contribution by Mark Engler.