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This Is What Could Happen to Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration This Is What Could Happen to Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

It’s going to be ugly.

Dec 14, 2016 / Rebecca Grant

What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?

What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws? What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?

Abortion is illegal in El Salvador—even in the midst of a public health crisis. But some feminists and doctors are fighting back.

Dec 14, 2016 / Madeleine Schwartz

The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama

The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama

How did the first lady, a model of intelligence and grace, manage to keep her composure?

Dec 14, 2016 / Feature / Adrienne Kennedy

Michelle Obama, Between Respectability and Radicalism

Michelle Obama, Between Respectability and Radicalism Michelle Obama, Between Respectability and Radicalism

While we took pride in the first lady, activists changed what she could do.

Dec 14, 2016 / Feature / Joelle Gamble

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We Are Hitting the Wall of Maximum Grabbing We Are Hitting the Wall of Maximum Grabbing

We have an epidemic of grabbing—land grabbing, resource grabbing—and now the most powerful nation on earth has elected Donald Trump as its grabber-in-chief.

Dec 14, 2016 / Naomi Klein

Harvard University

Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory

A shadowy new Professor Watchlist has revived the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. We must fight back.

Dec 13, 2016 / Erik Loomis

Scott Pruitt, Steven Mnuchin, and Jeff Sessions.

Tell the Senate to Block Trump’s Cabinet of Hate and Wall Street Greed Tell the Senate to Block Trump’s Cabinet of Hate and Wall Street Greed

President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments have been horrifying.

Dec 13, 2016 / NationAction

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How to Mount a Progressive Resistance How to Mount a Progressive Resistance

Opposition to Trump will come—not only in the streets but also from leaders in states and cities who are intent on making America better.

Dec 13, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Obama Did Not Fail Us—We Failed Each Other

Obama Did Not Fail Us—We Failed Each Other Obama Did Not Fail Us—We Failed Each Other

On Barack Obama’s presidency, Trayvon Martin’s death, and the storm clouds of 2016.

Dec 13, 2016 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams

Was Obama Silicon Valley’s President?

Was Obama Silicon Valley’s President? Was Obama Silicon Valley’s President?

The industry pinned its hopes on him early on.

Dec 13, 2016 / Feature / Siva Vaidhyanathan

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