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How to Fight for Women and Girls of Color While Trump Is President How to Fight for Women and Girls of Color While Trump Is President

Under Obama, the White House began collecting critically important data about women and girls of color. Under Trump, that data will become even more important.

Dec 22, 2016 / Dani McClain

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Trump Kicks Off the Return of the Czars Trump Kicks Off the Return of the Czars

Republicans had a huge problem with Obama’s “czars.” Will they say anything now? (Spoiler: no.)

Dec 22, 2016 / David Dayen

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Why Trump’s Hotels Will Doom Us All Why Trump’s Hotels Will Doom Us All

Who’d have thought it’d be a bad idea to elect a president with business interests pretty much everywhere in the world? 

Dec 22, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt

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Bob Stoops and the Geyser Cesspool of College Football Bob Stoops and the Geyser Cesspool of College Football

The 2014 video of Oklahoma University player Joe Mixon breaking the jaw of a female student is exposing, yet again, the rot of college football.

Dec 22, 2016 / Dave Zirin

Fake News Is Not the Real Media Threat We’re Facing

Fake News Is Not the Real Media Threat We’re Facing Fake News Is Not the Real Media Threat We’re Facing

What the conservative media machine does is much more dangerous.

Dec 22, 2016 / David A. Bell

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Here’s an Organizing Strategy to Revive the Democratic Party That Doesn’t Depend on White Voters Here’s an Organizing Strategy to Revive the Democratic Party That Doesn’t Depend on White Voters

Many Democrats assume it’s impossible to get more people of color to vote. That’s just not true.

Dec 22, 2016 / Steve Phillips

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Will Obama Cancel the Loan Debt of For-Profit College Victims? Will Obama Cancel the Loan Debt of For-Profit College Victims?

It may be their last chance for justice before Trump takes over.

Dec 22, 2016 / Michelle Chen

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Robert Reich: Why Republicans Are Wrong About Taxes Robert Reich: Why Republicans Are Wrong About Taxes

Plus: Martin Garbus on clemency for Leonard Peltier, and Amy Wilentz on the worst and best of 2016.

Dec 22, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Mississippi Prison Riot

Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working

Another audit is perhaps the final piece of official evidence countering Donald Trump’s belief in for-profit incarceration.

Dec 21, 2016 / Seth Freed Wessler

Declassify the Evidence of Russian Hacking!

Declassify the Evidence of Russian Hacking! Declassify the Evidence of Russian Hacking!

The debate over possible intervention in the election should be based on publicly disclosed evidence, not unverifiable, anonymous leaks.

Dec 21, 2016 / The Nation

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