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How Many Palm Beach Mansions Does a Wall Street Tycoon Need?

How Many Palm Beach Mansions Does a Wall Street Tycoon Need? How Many Palm Beach Mansions Does a Wall Street Tycoon Need?

As many as destroying America’s hometown newspapers can buy him.

Sep 27, 2017 / Feature / Julie Reynolds

North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line

North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line

How the GOP uses redistricting to maintain power in a purple state.

Sep 27, 2017 / Feature / Barry Yeoman

Trump addresses the UN

Is Your Senator Enabling Donald Trump’s Warmongering? Is Your Senator Enabling Donald Trump’s Warmongering?

Rand Paul tried to take away the president’s blank check for endless war, but a number of Democrats joined most Republicans in a Senate vote that let Trump keep it.

Sep 26, 2017 / John Nichols

Jose Garcia Vicente holds a piece of plumbing he picked up, as he shows his destroyed home, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Aibonito, Puerto.

Demand Immediate Aid for Puerto Rico Demand Immediate Aid for Puerto Rico

You can also register your friends and family to vote and march for racial justice.

Sep 26, 2017 / NationAction

Border camp Greece

Only One EU Country Has Permanently Taken In All the Asylum Seekers It Promised To Only One EU Country Has Permanently Taken In All the Asylum Seekers It Promised To

Less than a third of the 54,000 asylum seekers EU countries agreed to relocate have been provided long-term resettlement.

Sep 26, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Black Voters Casting Ballots

Democrats Must Stop Taking the Black Working Class for Granted Democrats Must Stop Taking the Black Working Class for Granted

A new report from Working America found that black Ohioans were suffering economically during the 2016 presidential election—but did not think a Democratic president would make a d...

Sep 26, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Peterson Air Force Base

This Is What World War III With China Might Look Like This Is What World War III With China Might Look Like

Spoiler alert: We probably wouldn’t win.

Sep 26, 2017 / Alfred W. McCoy

A pro-independence rally

Have Spain and Catalonia Reached a Point of No Return? Have Spain and Catalonia Reached a Point of No Return?

The bitter struggle over an independence referendum has pushed the country into a grave constitutional crisis.

Sep 26, 2017 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

Colin Kaepernick

Fearlessly Speaking Truth to Power Fearlessly Speaking Truth to Power

The examples of Manning and Kaepernick show some of America’s most powerful institutions treating the truth as an inconvenience or, worse, an enemy to defeat.

Sep 26, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Minnesota wage protest

Red-State Governments Are Trying to Take Back Your Minimum-Wage Hike and LGBTQ Protections Red-State Governments Are Trying to Take Back Your Minimum-Wage Hike and LGBTQ Protections

But these cities won’t let them.

Sep 26, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias

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