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These Pharmaceutical Companies Are Making a Killing Off the Opioid Crisis These Pharmaceutical Companies Are Making a Killing Off the Opioid Crisis

Why do the manufacturers of naloxone, the life-saving overdose antidote, keep hiking the price?

Dec 15, 2017 / Daniel Denvir

How Should I Deal With My 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Wants to Dress Slutty?

How Should I Deal With My 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Wants to Dress Slutty? How Should I Deal With My 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Wants to Dress Slutty?

Another reader asks what Jesus would do about a creepy guy at church.

Dec 15, 2017 / Liza Featherstone

Net Neutrality vote

Gutting Net Neutrality Is the Trump Administration’s Most Brutal Blow to Democracy Yet Gutting Net Neutrality Is the Trump Administration’s Most Brutal Blow to Democracy Yet

This cannot be the end of a free and open Internet. Activists must fight on in the courts, in Congress, and in the streets.

Dec 14, 2017 / John Nichols

Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley’s Politics Demand Criticism Charles Barkley’s Politics Demand Criticism

The NBA legend speaks beautifully about class, but when it comes to race, his views leave much to be desired.

Dec 14, 2017 / Dave Zirin

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Under Trump, the Private-Prison Boom Shows No Sign of Slowing Under Trump, the Private-Prison Boom Shows No Sign of Slowing

A conversation with Lauren-Brooke Eisen on her new book on private prisons and the long shadow of mass incarceration.

Dec 14, 2017 / John Washington

Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat

Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat

Howell Raines on Alabama, Joan Walsh on #MeToo after Al Franken, and John Nichols on Net Neutrality.

Dec 14, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

White Nationalist

The Media Must Stop Normalizing Nazis The Media Must Stop Normalizing Nazis

When one side is fascist, there’s no reason to show “both sides.”

Dec 13, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman

(Reuters / Aaron Bernstein)

Roy Moore Isn’t the Only One Who Thinks Dating Kids Is Fine Roy Moore Isn’t the Only One Who Thinks Dating Kids Is Fine

Just ask their parents first.

Dec 13, 2017 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Michael Flynn White House

Media Malpractice Is Criminalizing Better Relations With Russia Media Malpractice Is Criminalizing Better Relations With Russia

The pillorying of General Flynn and hounding of Secretary of State Tillerson equate détente with “collusion with the Kremlin.”

Dec 13, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen

The Second Klan

The Second Klan The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.

Dec 13, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Kevin M. Kruse

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