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Swedish Preschool

Even Conservatives Support Sweden’s Welfare State. Here’s Why. Even Conservatives Support Sweden’s Welfare State. Here’s Why.

It’s practical and efficient, allowing for a very competitive economy while ensuring a high standard of living.

Feb 19, 2019 / Barbara Koeppel

25 Years in Jail for Protecting the Planet?

25 Years in Jail for Protecting the Planet? 25 Years in Jail for Protecting the Planet?

The Kings Bay 7 were trying to put an end to the threat of nuclear war. Now they face a quarter-century behind bars.

Feb 18, 2019 / Frida Berrigan

Xi Jinping

The United States Is Already at War With China The United States Is Already at War With China

Trump is accelerating a gratuitous cold war between the world’s top two emitters of greenhouse gases, leaving the rest of the world to suffer.

Feb 18, 2019 / Michael T. Klare

National Emergency Protest

History Will Accord Donald Trump No Forgiveness History Will Accord Donald Trump No Forgiveness

It is not just what the president does but what he tells us not to do–especially on climate change–that makes his tenure strikingly dangerous.

Feb 18, 2019 / John Nichols

Medicare For All

We Don’t Need Private Health Insurance We Don’t Need Private Health Insurance

New single-payer plans don’t need to worry about carving out roles for health-care profiteers. 

Feb 18, 2019 / Adam Gaffney

Folk Music That Bends Time and Space

Folk Music That Bends Time and Space Folk Music That Bends Time and Space

The songs on Jessica Pratt’s new album Quiet Signs seem to exist in a tranquil place just outside reality.

Feb 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Olivia Horn

Give Him the Boot!

Give Him the Boot! Give Him the Boot!

He is full of hot air.

Feb 18, 2019 / OppArt / George de Castro-Day

Protest

Amazon’s Defeat Is Local and Global Amazon’s Defeat Is Local and Global

By tying their fight against Amazon to bigger structural problems, activists in Queens showed us a way forward for transnational anti-corporate politics.

Feb 17, 2019 / Jamie Merchant

Who Is Matt Duss and Can He Take On the ‘Blob’?

Who Is Matt Duss and Can He Take On the ‘Blob’? Who Is Matt Duss and Can He Take On the ‘Blob’?

Bernie’s foreign-policy adviser is doing just that.

Feb 16, 2019 / OppArt / Ryan Inzana

Donald Trump

Congress Should Apply Trump’s Own Standard for Executive Accountability to Him as President Congress Should Apply Trump’s Own Standard for Executive Accountability to Him as President

Trump wanted Congress to get tough on presidents who use executive action to “subvert the Constitution.” How tough? He said they “certainly could be impeached.”

Feb 15, 2019 / John Nichols

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