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AMLO inauguration in Mexico

What Does AMLO Mean for Migrants? What Does AMLO Mean for Migrants?

Mexico’s new president has signaled a more progressive, holistic approach to immigrants from Central America, but advocates want policies to follow the promises.

Dec 18, 2018 / Madeleine Wattenbarger

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Chicago Bill Siegel: The Greatest Chicago Bill Siegel: The Greatest

We remember the legendary documentary filmmaker.

Dec 18, 2018 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

North Korea Missile

Alexa, Send Nukes Alexa, Send Nukes

The US has entered an “arms-race with AI.”

Dec 18, 2018 / Michael T. Klare

Jakelin Caal Maquín Rally

Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border? Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border?

She died of cardiac arrest, but the real killer was decades of US policy in support of Guatemalan regimes that have displaced and slaughtered the Maya population.

Dec 17, 2018 / Greg Grandin and Elizabeth Oglesby

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The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women

Alabama’s painful racial legacy lives on in health-care inequality. 

Dec 17, 2018 / Michelle Chen

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Conspiracy Theorists Are Obsessed With the Wrong ‘New World Order’ Conspiracy Theorists Are Obsessed With the Wrong ‘New World Order’

The real globalists have been destroying civilization for decades.

Dec 17, 2018 / John Feffer

Sanders War Powers Hearing

Bernie Sanders Getting the Senate to Check and Balance Trump Is Huge Bernie Sanders Getting the Senate to Check and Balance Trump Is Huge

The bipartisan Senate vote to end US support for Saudi attacks on Yemen reasserts the authority of Congress in matters of war.

Dec 17, 2018 / John Nichols

Terrible Twos

Terrible Twos Terrible Twos

According to the Gun Violence Archives, in 2018, there have been 621 kids (age 0–11) and 2,599 teens (age 12–17) shot in the US.

Dec 17, 2018 / OppArt / Ileana Doble Hernandez

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Jazmine Headley’s Arrest Exposes the Punitive Design of Public Assistance Jazmine Headley’s Arrest Exposes the Punitive Design of Public Assistance

Welfare offices are the public face of a system designed to control, surveil, and penalize low-income women.

Dec 14, 2018 / Mariana Chilton

Portraits From the Exodus

Portraits From the Exodus Portraits From the Exodus

Members of the migrant caravans, stranded in Tijuana, explain why they traveled thousands of miles from their homes.

Dec 14, 2018 / Photo Essay / John Washington and Tracie Williams

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