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This Is a Piece I Would Write About How to Fight Trumpcare, if I Were Well Enough
It seems this bill, and all its horrors, have faded into a background of horrors in the American psyche.
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An Open Letter to the GOP: You Are Sentencing Me to Death
Health care is never a numbers game — it's always about life and death for somebody.
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How Our Protests Won Marriage Equality
How an upsurge of activism led to a sea change in public opinion — and a victory for civil rights that had seemed distant just a few years earlier.
Women in California’s Largest Immigrant Prison Hold Hunger Strike
This month, 33 women incarcerated by ICE in California's Adelanto Detention Facility launched a hunger strike.
What Happens When the Federal Government Eliminates Health Coverage?
Historical precedents can provide insights for the current debate.
A World of Winless War: US Special Ops Forces Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017
During this first half-year of the Trump administration, US commandos have already been sent to 137 countries.
Climate Destabilization Is Causing Thousands of New Species Migrations: Plant, Animal, Insect, Bird
A spate of new research studies has confirmed a disturbing pattern.
“The Vulnerable Have Entered a More Precarious State Than Ever”: Marc Lamont Hill on Neoliberalism’s “Nobodies“
Marc Lamont Hill discusses neoliberalism, the plea bargain system and the current callous politics of disposability.
Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times
Critical thinking and a culture of questioning are our strongest foils against authoritarianism.
Myths of Job-Killing Robots Obscure Real Causes of Inequality
The data is clear: Insofar as people are seeing job opportunities disappear, it is due to factors other than robots.