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Trump Is Erasing Racial Diversity From the South’s Federal Courts
Trump's record on judicial diversity is the worst since President Reagan.
ALEC Task Forces Gather in Michigan to Draft Bills for Corporate Sponsors
The agenda includes education privatization, measures to please fossil fuel companies, marijuana companies, and more.
Graduate Workers Strike at Columbia, 50 Years After ’68 Occupation
The strike is planned to continue through the end of classes.
Trade Wars Are Never “Easy to Win”: Economist Robert Pollin on Trump’s China Policy
Are tariffs good for economic policy? And whom do they benefit most -- capitalists or workers?
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson Offers Tenants Insults, Not Solutions
Carson's proposals triple the rent for people on housing assistance.
With Tax Scam Complete, GOP Caucus Unveils Budget Blueprint to Attack Safety Net
In this plan, programs like Social Security and Medicare are gutted while tax cuts are permanent.
Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster
We stand near the edge of a dangerous financial precipice.
“This Is on Trump”: VA Pick Ronny Jackson Withdraws as Reports of Misconduct and Lack of Vetting Swirl
Jackson is hardly the first Trump nominee to withdraw before a Senate confirmation hearing.
White Supremacy and Capitalism Are Deeply Entangled With the Colonial Slave Trade
Slavery, settler colonialism, white supremacy and capitalism were essential features of what would become the US.
Twenty-Five Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Its Survivors Are Leading a New Prison Resistance Movement
Today's rebellions are not contained by prison walls.