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The Nonprofits and Businesses Making Millions From Detaining Migrant Children
Here are the 61 vendors making money from migrant children operations.
We Must Fight to Preserve Social Security for Millennials
Millennials will rely on Social Security retirement benefits significantly more than previous generations.
Journalists, Pundits and Retired Politicians Put on a Show for Lobbyists
It’s become remarkably common for lobbying groups to pay astronomical sums to insiders who drive news coverage.
A Former Industry Insider Reveals How Drug Companies Jack Up Prices
Frances Leath no longer works in management for Eli Lilly and Company, but she keeps tabs on the company.
Making Sure the Census Counts Indian Country
Undercounting in the last census adversely affected tribal governments' funding.
The Declaration of Independence Is Sexist, Racist, Prejudiced
How we can embrace the underlying spirit of the Declaration of Independence but also learn from its shortcomings.
Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Border Patrol Migrant Jails
Critics slammed the president's tweet as a particularly “monstrous” example of victim blaming.
Fund Head Start, Not Internment Camps
One policy gives children lifelong benefits. The other destroys lives.
Plans for Prison on Mountaintop-Removal Site in Kentucky Scuttled. Maybe.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has withdrawn the $500 million proposal, but Mitch McConnell says he’s moving it forward.
Warren’s Pledge to Deny Donors Ambassador Jobs Marks Departure From Trump, Obama
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's decision would be a departure from a decades-old norm in Washington.