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These Farmworkers Know How to End Sexual Harassment in the Fields. Will Wendy’s Listen? These Farmworkers Know How to End Sexual Harassment in the Fields. Will Wendy’s Listen?

Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are fasting to pressure Wendy’s to join a breakthrough fair-food program that’s raised wages and made workplace harassment obsolete.

Mar 15, 2018 / Rinku Sen

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Letters From the April 9, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 9, 2018, Issue

Octopus’s garden… Is trust-busting enough?… Old justice made new… A nation of ignorance…

Mar 15, 2018 / Our Readers

It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun

It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun

For the undocumented mother of three, taking sanctuary in a church seemed the best way to keep her family together.

Mar 15, 2018 / Feature / Cinthya Santos Briones, Laura Gottesdiener, and Malav Kanuga

For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point

For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point

The White House’s immigration policies are designed to maximize suffering.

Mar 15, 2018 / Feature / Julianne Hing

It’s Time to Stop Fixating on Punishment

It’s Time to Stop Fixating on Punishment It’s Time to Stop Fixating on Punishment

Trump’s call to execute drug dealers is bizarre and irrational, but so is our criminal-justice system.

Mar 15, 2018 / Column / Kai Wright

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Robert Reich: Donald Trump vs. the Common Good Robert Reich: Donald Trump vs. the Common Good

Plus, the man who stopped the My Lai massacre, and Katha Pollitt on Russiagate skeptics.

Mar 15, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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Why Is the Op-Ed Page of ‘The New York Times’ Obsessed With College Kids? Why Is the Op-Ed Page of ‘The New York Times’ Obsessed With College Kids?

The “newspaper of record” should expect more from its conservative hires.

Mar 14, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

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‘Icarus’: Best Film Based on a Doping Scheme (but the Wrong One) ‘Icarus’: Best Film Based on a Doping Scheme (but the Wrong One)

The film makes a hero of an admitted wrongdoer.

Mar 14, 2018 / Ronald Katz

A New Chance for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal

A New Chance for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal A New Chance for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal

On March 27, Mumia’s lawyers will go to court again.

Mar 14, 2018 / OppArt / Seth Tobocman

The Women of Wages for Housework

The Women of Wages for Housework The Women of Wages for Housework

A new book edited by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin helps  capture the excitement and ideas of a movement that had modest origins but spread around the world within several ...

Mar 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Jaffe

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