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Chinese Ikea Worker

The Toxic Work Environments That Produce Your Pots and Pans The Toxic Work Environments That Produce Your Pots and Pans

Multinational corporations are once again profiting off of China’s dismal labor conditions.

Feb 10, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.

Feb 10, 2016 / Feature / Michelle Alexander

Garth Greenwell.

Human Nature Shines Through Human Nature Shines Through

Garth Greenwell’s exquisite first novel outlines the shape of desire by filling in everything around it.

Feb 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Damon Galgut

Worn portraits of Mao Zedong in Shanghai, China, 2006.

Memories of the Mao Era Memories of the Mao Era

Ji Xianlin’s memoir is the most widely read account of the Cultural Revolution in China. Has it changed the country’s amnesia about its bloody past?

Feb 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Chenxin Jiang

New Hampshire Feels the Bern

New Hampshire Feels the Bern New Hampshire Feels the Bern

Sanders won in almost every demographic. Voters in Nevada and South Carolina will decide next.

Feb 10, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan

Trump

New Hampshire Chooses the Worst Possible Outcome for the GOP New Hampshire Chooses the Worst Possible Outcome for the GOP

All Republican elites wanted from New Hampshire was a clear alternative to Trump and Cruz. They didn’t get it.

Feb 10, 2016 / John Nichols

Ted Cruz Keeps Winning

Ted Cruz Keeps Winning Ted Cruz Keeps Winning

Besides Trump, the Texas senator is the only stable and successful force in the GOP primary.

Feb 10, 2016 / George Zornick

Gloria Steinem

What Gloria Steinem Got—Almost—Right What Gloria Steinem Got—Almost—Right

In real life, our political preferences are shaped by all sorts of social and psychological factors, including our sense of what other people think.

Feb 9, 2016 / Katha Pollitt

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

The Misdiagnosis of Terrorism The Misdiagnosis of Terrorism

The real violence threatening America is that of our immoral public policy choices, at home and abroad.

Feb 9, 2016 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

A woman points a handgun with a laser sight on a wall display of other guns during the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis.

Why Haven’t Republicans Talked About Guns in New Hampshire? Why Haven’t Republicans Talked About Guns in New Hampshire?

Ted Cruz is probably winning the gun primary, but it has not been a huge factor.

Feb 9, 2016 / George Zornick

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