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A construction worker takes on the speaker of the House—and sparks fly.
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The Senate GOP Isn’t Fixing Health Care. It’s Waging Class War.
A draft bill released Thursday offers tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor and the elderly.
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The Senate Health-Care Bill Is Morally Indefensible
The bill makes an equivalence between affording care and deserving care.
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Juvenile Justice
Lisa, Laquanda, Machelle, and Kenya Were Sentenced as Children to Die in Prison
Decades later, a Supreme Court ruling could give them their freedom.
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When SCOTUS outlawed mandatory juvenile life without parole, advocates celebrated—but the outcome has been anything but fair.
Jessica PishkoThe Battle Against Prisons for Kids
We’re feeding children into a system that breaks them.
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Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of assassination—but neither is it the celebration of “small-d democrats” that the Public Theatre wants it to be.
Katha Pollitt
Belief in ‘American Gods’
Based on a 2001 novel, the new TV show explores immigration, assimilation, and the march to modernity.
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His new novel, So Much Blue, is a meditation on seeing and abstraction, and it might be key for recognizing a new form of literary social critique.
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How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political, and environmental commons.
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