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These Parents Are Making Little League Miserable—for Their Son, and for Me

These Parents Are Making Little League Miserable—for Their Son, and for Me These Parents Are Making Little League Miserable—for Their Son, and for Me

Another reader is racking up credit-card debt to keep up with her better-off friends.

Apr 12, 2019 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone

UAW members outside the Nissan plant

The Presidential Candidates Should Debate Union Rights in Chattanooga The Presidential Candidates Should Debate Union Rights in Chattanooga

Members of UAW Local 42 want collective-bargaining rights at the Volkswagen plant. Where better to debate about labor rights, unions and the future of work?

Apr 11, 2019 / John Nichols

Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos

Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos

The New Me and other recent novels use millennial tropes as shortcuts to generational fatigue.

Apr 11, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Katie Bloom

It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business

It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business

For Rupert and his sons, the press has always been the prime weapon in their power-seeking agenda.

Apr 11, 2019 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold

The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold

But if the salad giant is so woke, why are 95 percent of its shops in majority white neighborhoods?

Apr 10, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman

An opium field in Afghanistan

America’s Drug War Is Ruining the World America’s Drug War Is Ruining the World

A half-century of Washington’s harsh drug prohibition policies has brought misery to millions across the globe. 

Apr 9, 2019 / Alfred McCoy

Bernie Sanders at a convention

Bernie Sanders Is Making Union Solidarity an Essential Theme of the 2020 Campaign Bernie Sanders Is Making Union Solidarity an Essential Theme of the 2020 Campaign

The senator is rallying with labor and proposing to upend “right to work” laws.

Apr 8, 2019 / John Nichols

Bernie Sanders New Hampshire

The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It? The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It?

The right person will understand one crucial thing that Barack Obama did not get. 

Apr 8, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage

In Defense of the Much-Maligned IRS

In Defense of the Much-Maligned IRS In Defense of the Much-Maligned IRS

The agency helps to keep the wealthy accountable.

Apr 8, 2019 / Editorial / Bryce Covert

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Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue

Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay…

Apr 4, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers

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