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The Real GOP Primary Is Almost Over

The Real GOP Primary Is Almost Over The Real GOP Primary Is Almost Over

Candidates have been frantically competing for the loyalty of a handful of donors.

Apr 22, 2015 / The Editors

Chicago Is About to Offer the Nation’s First Reparations Program for Victims of Police Violence

Chicago Is About to Offer the Nation’s First Reparations Program for Victims of Police Violence Chicago Is About to Offer the Nation’s First Reparations Program for Victims of Police Violence

Local advocates are poised to win a campaign for justice that’s broader than individual civil suits can offer.

Apr 22, 2015 / Zach Stafford

Why Were Atlanta Teachers Prosecuted Under a Law Meant for Organized Crime?

Why Were Atlanta Teachers Prosecuted Under a Law Meant for Organized Crime? Why Were Atlanta Teachers Prosecuted Under a Law Meant for Organized Crime?

To understand the cheating scandal, look to flawed education policy.

Apr 22, 2015 / Daniel Denvir

Best in the Nation Best in the Nation

Awards season.

Apr 22, 2015

There’s a Reason Gay Marriage Is Winning, While Abortion Rights Are Losing

There’s a Reason Gay Marriage Is Winning, While Abortion Rights Are Losing There’s a Reason Gay Marriage Is Winning, While Abortion Rights Are Losing

Are these two “culture wars” issues really that similar?

Apr 22, 2015 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Republican Contenders Stream into New Hampshire Republican Contenders Stream into New Hampshire

Obama they live to denounce. But Hillary’s who they must trounce. An awkward conundrum occurs: Is everything his fault or hers?

Apr 22, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Federal Contract Workers Just Went on Strike in DC

Federal Contract Workers Just Went on Strike in DC Federal Contract Workers Just Went on Strike in DC

The low wages the government pays its army of contract workers is exacerbating precarity in the labor force as a whole.

Apr 22, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866

Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866 Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866

We look back to the time when a science columnist wrote up one possible replacement for "the fossil fuel which is now so important an element in the existing order of human society...

Apr 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Is the Carbon-Divestment Movement Reaching a Tipping Point?

Is the Carbon-Divestment Movement Reaching a Tipping Point? Is the Carbon-Divestment Movement Reaching a Tipping Point?

Interviews with Harvard professors Naomi Oreskes and James Anderson about universities’ moral imperative to join the fight against fossil fuel.

Apr 22, 2015 / Wen Stephenson

April 22, 1970: Earth Day Is Celebrated For the First Time

April 22, 1970: Earth Day Is Celebrated For the First Time April 22, 1970: Earth Day Is Celebrated For the First Time

“It is an operation—however well meaning, however many good people involved—that is, at its core, a shuck.”

Apr 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

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