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A homeless child

We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It? We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It?

A new report outlines how to help millions of US children living in poverty. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate

A conversation about Trump, Russia, and the New Cold War.

Mar 5, 2019 / The Nation

Migrant caravan in Tijuana

Trump Is Fetishizing Death to Justify His Cruelty at the Border Trump Is Fetishizing Death to Justify His Cruelty at the Border

The president is furthering a legacy of brutality that stretches back to the Mexican-American War.  

Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Grandin

Terry Miller Andraya Yearwood

Transphobia’s New Target Is the World of Sports Transphobia’s New Target Is the World of Sports

First it was bathrooms, now it’s athletics.

Mar 5, 2019 / Dave Zirin

Ro Khanna introduces Yemen resolution

Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy

The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.

Mar 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Ilhan Omar

The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty

I’m Jewish and have worked against anti-Semitism for decades. I was sitting a few feet from Omar at Busboys & Poets and I heard nothing—nothing—that smacked of anti-Semitism, o...

Mar 5, 2019 / Phyllis Bennis

Protest against Publix Supermarkets

Take Action Now: March With Organizing Farmworkers Take Action Now: March With Organizing Farmworkers

Plus fight back against Trump’s fake national emergency and get involved with a youth climate strike.

Mar 5, 2019 / NationAction

Black History Month

Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them

Efforts to “fix” black students’ hair are a vestige of our segregated past that deemed blackness inferior.

Mar 5, 2019 / StudentNation / Andre Perry

The New Female Future 

The New Female Future  The New Female Future 

Handing it down.

Mar 5, 2019 / OppArt / Laura David

USICE

US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger

In Trump’s America, paperwork can be lethal. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Daniel Moattar

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