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These Farmworkers Know How to End Sexual Harassment in the Fields. Will Wendy’s Listen? These Farmworkers Know How to End Sexual Harassment in the Fields. Will Wendy’s Listen?

Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are fasting to pressure Wendy’s to join a breakthrough fair-food program that’s raised wages and made workplace harassment obsolete.

Mar 15, 2018 / Rinku Sen

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Letters From the April 9, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 9, 2018, Issue

Octopus’s garden… Is trust-busting enough?… Old justice made new… A nation of ignorance…

Mar 15, 2018 / Our Readers

Gary Cohn

Gary Cohn, Populist Gary Cohn, Populist

His goal was to make an adjustment in taxes That feathered the nest of the Goldmans and Sachses. His mission accomplished, his White House tour ends With many more millions for him…

Mar 15, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Courage

Courage Courage

Stillness until six, the yards and porches giant toy sets for the street cats. Each sleep a baffling practice for leaving you behind entirely, even if we’re touching hands. For the…

Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Nate Klug

Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages

Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages

Please know that I read them all and could not weep, afraid to compromise the task I was handed: to reconstitute this you in the Spanish tongue. Know that I aimed to honor what the…

Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / José A. Rodríguez

Puzzle No. 3460

Puzzle No. 3460 Puzzle No. 3460

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  7  Carol devours Vonnegut’s first book (5)  8 Paradise is quiet, and almost madly angelic at the outset (7-2)  9…

Mar 15, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Children ARE Our Future!

The Children ARE Our Future! The Children ARE Our Future!

Nate (age 11) has been drawing editorial cartoons since he saw the 2016 debates.

Mar 15, 2018 / OppArt / Nate

It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun

It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun

For the undocumented mother of three, taking sanctuary in a church seemed the best way to keep her family together.

Mar 15, 2018 / Feature / Cinthya Santos Briones, Laura Gottesdiener, and Malav Kanuga

For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point

For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point

The White House’s immigration policies are designed to maximize suffering.

Mar 15, 2018 / Feature / Julianne Hing

Think the War in Syria Is Winding Down? Think Again.

Think the War in Syria Is Winding Down? Think Again. Think the War in Syria Is Winding Down? Think Again.

The conflict, having long since fallen into the hands of foreigners, is flying along on its second wind.

Mar 15, 2018 / Feature / Charles Glass

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