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Minor League Baseball

Why Minor-League Baseball Needs to Organize Why Minor-League Baseball Needs to Organize

Bill Fletcher joins the show to talk minor-league baseball and the issues its players face.

Apr 3, 2018 / Audio / Dave Zirin

Sex work protest

New Legislation Aimed at Fighting Trafficking on Digital Platforms Could Put Sex Workers in Danger New Legislation Aimed at Fighting Trafficking on Digital Platforms Could Put Sex Workers in Danger

By closing down online portals, politicians are pushing sex workers onto the streets.

Mar 30, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Tempe election

How a Small City Is Taking on the Big Power of Dark Money How a Small City Is Taking on the Big Power of Dark Money

Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, from Tempe to Nashville and beyond.

Mar 30, 2018 / Cities Rising / Jimmy Tobias

Confronting the ‘Native Harvey Weinsteins’

Confronting the ‘Native Harvey Weinsteins’ Confronting the ‘Native Harvey Weinsteins’

When Indigenous women are harassed at work, gaps in tribal law can leave them in a precarious gray area.

Mar 30, 2018 / Feature / Rebecca Clarren and Jason Begay

No Wonder Teachers Are Saying Enough Is Enough

No Wonder Teachers Are Saying Enough Is Enough No Wonder Teachers Are Saying Enough Is Enough

Public-school teachers around the country have been asked to do more with less.

Mar 29, 2018 / Editorial / Bryce Covert

What Can Democrats Learn From Robert F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign?

What Can Democrats Learn From Robert F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign? What Can Democrats Learn From Robert F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign?

Liberals need to find a way to appeal to white working-class voters without betraying their principles.

Mar 28, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time

5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time 5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time

Sheryl Sandberg preached fitting into the power structure. Instead, women are challenging it.

Mar 21, 2018 / Helaine Olen

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Letters From the April 16, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 16, 2018, Issue

Beyond #MeToo… A place to be… After Parkland… A scandal [web only]…

Mar 21, 2018 / Letters / Our Readers

Hundreds in Aubervilliers protesting against the Front National

‘The Social Ladder Is Broken’: Hope and Despair in the French Banlieues ‘The Social Ladder Is Broken’: Hope and Despair in the French Banlieues

Emmanuel Macron promised to reduce urban inequality, but his policies are out of touch with the impoverished reality on Paris’s periphery.

Mar 21, 2018 / Karina Piser

Why Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee

Why Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee Why Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee

One notable 2020 contender is already doing it. 

Mar 20, 2018 / Sean McElwee, Colin McAuliffe, and Jon Green

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