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Children at a daycare in California

All Families Should Be Able to Afford Childcare, and Here’s How All Families Should Be Able to Afford Childcare, and Here’s How

A new bill would also make sure childcare providers earn a living wage.

Mar 22, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Pentagon

Pentagon Spending Is a Poor Job Creator Pentagon Spending Is a Poor Job Creator

The Trump administration touts weapons spending as the best way to bolster the American economy. It’s not.

Mar 22, 2019 / William D. Hartung

This Is How You Make an Electronic Masterpiece

This Is How You Make an Electronic Masterpiece This Is How You Make an Electronic Masterpiece

Helado Negro’s new album of deeply intimate electronic music is simply stunning.

Mar 22, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez

The Trump Ring

The Trump Ring The Trump Ring

The Russiagate gang all together.

Mar 22, 2019 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Should I Out This Rapist?

Should I Out This Rapist? Should I Out This Rapist?

Another reader asks if wearing a sparkly ring makes her look “tone deaf” in a world where people are struggling.

Mar 22, 2019 / Liza Featherstone

Listening to Michael Jackson Will Never Be the Same

Listening to Michael Jackson Will Never Be the Same Listening to Michael Jackson Will Never Be the Same

What it means to listen to Jackson’s music after HBO’s Leaving Neverland.

Mar 22, 2019 / David Hajdu

A Wisconsin Judge Upends the GOP Power Grab and Restores the Authority of the Democratic Governor

A Wisconsin Judge Upends the GOP Power Grab and Restores the Authority of the Democratic Governor A Wisconsin Judge Upends the GOP Power Grab and Restores the Authority of the Democratic Governor

Governor Tony Evers immediately withdraws Wisconsin from the Republican-led lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.

Mar 21, 2019 / John Nichols

Trump Opioid Speech

Trump Wants to Take Away Your Citizenship Trump Wants to Take Away Your Citizenship

The current administration is bent on making it easier to denaturalize American citizens. 

Mar 21, 2019 / Karen J. Greenberg

Mike Pompeo

Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court? Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court?

Mike Pompeo’s diplomatic sanctions against war-crimes investigators are consistent with Trump’s “America first” worldview.

Mar 21, 2019 / Nicholas Mulder

More Than 90 Percent of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies

More Than 90 Percent of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies More Than 90 Percent of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies

The real risks from chemicals in our food—for farmworkers and children, in particular—are being ignored.

Mar 21, 2019 / Liza Gross

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