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In 2014, Adam Shatz’s “Writers or Missionaries” appeared in The Nation, a piece about his relationship, as a Jewish American journalist, to the political conflicts in the Arab-spea…
Is This a Form of Capitalism Progressives Can Embrace? Is This a Form of Capitalism Progressives Can Embrace?
Cooperatives can be part of the solution in building the working and middle class in this country.
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Contempt of Court
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On this episode of the Contempt of Court podcast, a deep dive into jurisdiction stripping.
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On this episode of the Contempt of Court podcast, Congressman Hank Johnson and writer Emily Bazelon discuss fixes to the Court’s ethics problem.
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Politics
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Books & the Arts
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The new show from the creators of The Office reminds us that their comedic style does now work in every “workplace in the world.”
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Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-Up explores the life and times of one of America’s greatest investigative reporters.
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Throughout the country, far-right groups are trying to control what books kids can read. In Dayton, Wash., they tried to shut down the library altogether.
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As Republicans pay the political price for overturning legal abortion, they’re banking on “parents’ rights” as a way to paint their opponents as extreme.
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