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Congress is finally taking steps to repeal a blank check for war.
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Contrary to what one unrepresentative study found, the city’s workers are actually benefiting from the wage hike.
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Gun Sales Are Plummeting and Trump Wants to Help
The NRA’s new playbook includes guns for kids and open carry in every state.
George ZornickA beaming Donald Trump stood before hundreds of National Rifle Association members at their annual meeting in Atlanta this past April. “You are my friends, believe me,” he said, as the crowd hooted and hollered for the first sitting president to appear at the NRA’s national convention in more than… Continue Reading >
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Politics
This Union Ironworker Has a Plan to Beat Paul Ryan
A construction worker takes on the speaker of the House—and sparks fly.
John Nichols
Jason Chaffetz’s Pity Party Is Everything That Is Wrong With a 1 Percent Congress
The Utah congressman has turned his housing situation into a multiyear political stunt—while voting to gut the safety net.
Helaine Olen
The Health-Care Debacle Has Exposed Republicans for Who They Are
We shouldn’t forget the abject cruelty of the “repeal” plans.
Robert L. Borosagefocus on Socialism
Socialism’s Past and Future
Axel Honneth’s new book seeks to give renewed meaning to the socialist ideal.
Martin JayWhy Are Young People Voting for Old Socialists?
Sarah Leonard on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the surge of youth support for socialism.
Jon WienerSocialism’s Return
After more than a half-century in the wilderness, the socialist left reemerges in America.
Patrick Iber
Culture
Belief in ‘American Gods’
Based on a 2001 novel, the new TV show explores immigration, assimilation, and the march to modernity.
Loren A. Lynch
Percival Everett’s Abstract Art
His new novel, So Much Blue, is a meditation on seeing and abstraction, and it might be key for recognizing a new form of literary social critique.
Paul Devlin
Grace Paley’s Crowded World
In her life, as in her writing, the boundaries between the personal and the political were remarkably porous.
Maggie DohertyWatch and Listen
Listen: How an Anti-Racist Lawsuit Empowered the Most Racist Brand in Sports
Charting a new strategy to get Washington’s football team to change the name.
June 27, 2017
Watch: Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political, and environmental commons.
June 2, 2017
Watch: Clean In: How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union—And Won
A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg.
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