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Metropolitan Detention Center

For Criminal Justice Reform, the First Step Act Is Just the Start For Criminal Justice Reform, the First Step Act Is Just the Start

Progressives should seize on the law’s momentum and help it grow.

Feb 12, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Penn State Campus

New Rules Would Discourage Colleges From Investigating Rape Accusations New Rules Would Discourage Colleges From Investigating Rape Accusations

The Department of Education says new regulations would reduce sexual-misconduct probes by 32 percent.

Feb 12, 2019 / StudentNation / Sara Darehshori

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

An Honest, Good-Faith Medicare-for-All Debate An Honest, Good-Faith Medicare-for-All Debate

Just kidding!

Feb 12, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks at ‘The Nation’

Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks at ‘The Nation’ Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks at ‘The Nation’

On Governor Ralph Northam and Virginia’s political crisis.

Feb 11, 2019 / The Nation

Cubs Ownership Has a Racism Problem

Cubs Ownership Has a Racism Problem Cubs Ownership Has a Racism Problem

Julie DiCaro and Bijan Bayne join the show to talk Cubs e-mails and Frank Robinson’s legacy.

Feb 11, 2019 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

Freeland and Mogherini at the Women Foreign Ministers Meeting

Canada’s ‘Feminist’ Foreign Aid Is a Fraud Canada’s ‘Feminist’ Foreign Aid Is a Fraud

Women’s empowerment is never just an economic issue; it’s always a political issue, too.

Feb 11, 2019 / Rafia Zakaria

LaShawn Robinson outside the Connecticut Capitol

A Lawsuit Threatens a Groundbreaking School-Desegregation Case A Lawsuit Threatens a Groundbreaking School-Desegregation Case

After Sheff v. O’Neill, Hartford, Connecticut, created a new model for school integration. Now a conservative law firm wants to dismantle it.

Feb 11, 2019 / Rachel M. Cohen

Facing the Wall

Facing the Wall Facing the Wall

Street Artist JR Installs Massive Face of a Child on Mexican Side..

Feb 11, 2019 / OppArt / JR

John Dingell

John Dingell Kept the Faith, From the New Deal to ‘Medicare for All’ John Dingell Kept the Faith, From the New Deal to ‘Medicare for All’

The veteran congressman, who has died at age 92, always understood that health care is a right.

Feb 8, 2019 / John Nichols

Frank Robinson

Frank Robinson Was a Fearless Speaker of Truth Frank Robinson Was a Fearless Speaker of Truth

He was so much more than an athlete. He was a fighter, and we could use more like him today.

Feb 8, 2019 / Dave Zirin

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