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Trump in Alabama

The World Is Ready to Burst Into Flames, and Donald Trump Is Holding the Match The World Is Ready to Burst Into Flames, and Donald Trump Is Holding the Match

Who will save us from our pyromaniac in chief?

Dec 19, 2017 / Rebecca Gordon

(Bryan Cox / ICE via AP)

How a Group of Immigration Attorneys Stopped a Deportation Flight to Cambodia How a Group of Immigration Attorneys Stopped a Deportation Flight to Cambodia

ICE is seeking to deport Cambodian Americans at unprecedented speed.

Dec 19, 2017 / Julianne Hing

Doug Jones

The Left Helped Jones Defeat Moore. It Could Help More Democrats in 2018. The Left Helped Jones Defeat Moore. It Could Help More Democrats in 2018.

The Democrats must work harder to build grassroots infrastructure and offer voters a bolder vision proudly based on progressive values.

Dec 19, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Restaurant Worker

Do You Trust Your Boss to ‘Share’ Your Tips? Do You Trust Your Boss to ‘Share’ Your Tips?

The Department of Labor wants to make it legal for employers to take away workers’ tips.

Dec 19, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Show Us Your Taxes

Show Us Your Taxes Show Us Your Taxes

Will the new tax bill include a mandatory provision that presidents must release their taxes?

Dec 19, 2017 / OppArt / India Tresselt

New Orleans Saints players take the knee

2017 in Sports and Politics: The Return of the Backlash 2017 in Sports and Politics: The Return of the Backlash

Following an old script, right-wing racist minions spent this year trying to make athlete activists pay a price for being conscious.

Dec 19, 2017 / Dave Zirin

Peter Sarsgaard

Errol Morris’s Paranoid Style Errol Morris’s Paranoid Style

In Wormwood, the filmmaker reminds us that sometimes skepticism is the only thing we can trust.

Dec 18, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

Republican Tax Bill

The Republican Tax Bill Codifies a New Gilded Age The Republican Tax Bill Codifies a New Gilded Age

The GOP tax plan harks back to an idea that the poor should be humiliated and the rich are virtuous.

Dec 18, 2017 / Ed Burmila

Jeff Sessions

How the Justice Department Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis How the Justice Department Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis

Instead of criminalizing drug use, the Department of Justice should do these three things.

Dec 18, 2017 / Megan McLemore

Trump’s Tax Deform

Trump’s Tax Deform Trump’s Tax Deform

Enriching the country’s elite at the expense of everybody else.

Dec 18, 2017 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

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