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Joe Manchin Is Reviving Harmful Myths About Poverty Joe Manchin Is Reviving Harmful Myths About Poverty

The Democratic Party has finally recognized that income inequality, not “dependency,” is what’s harming families. But Manchin is still pushing that 1990s-era belief.

Oct 28, 2021 / Editorial / Joan Walsh

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Manchin’s Shameful Child Care Stance Isn’t Just Bad Politics. It’s Self-Defeating Policy. Manchin’s Shameful Child Care Stance Isn’t Just Bad Politics. It’s Self-Defeating Policy.

The senator is forcing a choice among four crucial pillars of a holistic solution to help struggling families.

Oct 19, 2021 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue

Our carbon bootprint… The forgotten forever war… Fuzzy math… Feminism: left and white? (web only)…

Oct 19, 2021 / Letters / Our Readers and Rafia Zakaria

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America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By

Time to begin the dirty, essential work of undigging our history, before it kills us all.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Gregg Gonsalves

How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful

How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful

A conversation with author Eyal Press about the men and women who do this country’s most maligned jobs and the psychic toll it takes on them.

Oct 14, 2021 / Back Page / Jasmine Liu

The Unsure State of Asian America

The Unsure State of Asian America The Unsure State of Asian America

A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”

Oct 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho

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How a State Bank Could Challenge Payday Lenders How a State Bank Could Challenge Payday Lenders

California may establish federally insured banking system to serve the more than 7 percent of its residents who don’t have bank accounts.

Oct 8, 2021 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky

Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?

Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference? Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?

Flash in the pan or the prelude to political organizing as we know it today?

Sep 17, 2021 / Feature / Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, and Penny Lewis

When It Rains in Detroit

When It Rains in Detroit When It Rains in Detroit

Even an ordinary rainfall in the Motor City can prompt devastating floods, turning the fortunes of many upside down.

Sep 10, 2021 / Bilal Baydoun

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When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens? When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens?

The initial decision by OnlyFans to ban porn illustrates how ostensibly legal online sex work is, in reality, criminalized.

Sep 6, 2021 / Emily Coombes

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