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Why Is the Obama Administration Keeping Toddlers Behind Bars?

Twenty-two women stuck in a legal limbo with their children are on a hunger strike in Pennsylvania.

Joshua Holland

Election 2016

The Working Families Party Gives an Eyes-Wide-Open Endorsement to Hillary Clinton

The progressive organization is giving its support to Clinton—but pledging to hold her accountable.

John Nichols
Oil and Gas

A Massive Oil Pipeline Is Being Built Across the Great Plains

But resistance is rapidly escalating.

Zoë Carpenter
Foreign Policy

Why Is Venezuela in Crisis?

Much of it is due to government blundering. But opposition protests, often violent, and destabilization from Washington have wreaked havoc as well.

Gabriel Hetland
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Special Report

Is Angela Corey the Cruelest Prosecutor in America?

The woman who failed to convict Trayvon Martin’s killer is putting hundreds of kids in prison, and dozens of people on death row.
Jessica Pishko

In March of 2011, 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez was taken into an interview room at a Jacksonville, Florida, police station and interrogated by Michelle Soehlig, a ponytailed female officer. Before Soehlig began questioning him, she told the child, “These are your constitutional rights,” and slid over a document listing the Miranda… Continue Reading >

Election 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Embrace of Kissinger Is Inexcusable

Bernie Sanders should call on her to repudiate him as the war criminal he is.

Greg Grandin

Donald Trump Is Encouraging Intimidation and Racial Profiling at the Polls

Courts blocked the GOP from intimidating minority voters. Now Trump is trying again.

Ari Berman

The Phony Populism of Donald Trump

Defeating Trump means unapologetically embracing the progressive populism needed to move the country forward.

Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Books & the Arts

Brand Yeezy

To what extent can Kanye West continue to foreground the commercial components that make his art possible before we no longer consider him an artist at all?

Angela Flournoy

Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas

In The Viceroys, Frederico De Roberto’s novel of the Risorgimento, the Uzeda family corrupts everything it touches.

Frederika Randall

Leaving Home to Go Home

Yaa Gyasi’s ideas about fiction are suffused with her lifelong attention to the fluctuating shadows that race casts on American life.

Erin Vanderhoof

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Demand That Politicians Fight to Get Women a Raise

The Economic Policy Institute has released a plan to close the gender wage gap.

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