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From the Magazine
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Summer 2017
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion
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Summer 2017
Settlements: The Real Story
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Summer 2017
Place Matters
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Summer 2017
Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
Must-Reads
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House GOP Votes to Deregulate Wall Street and Gut Consumer Protections
Jun 8, 2017
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In Russiagate, Keep Your Eye on Pence
May 17, 2017
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The Simple Case Against Trump
Jun 8, 2017
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The Racism Obstacle
Jun 1, 2017
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How Jeff Sessions Is Laying the Groundwork for Authoritarian Action
Apr 12, 2017
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No Factions in Foxholes
Apr 5, 2017
The Magazine
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Vol. 3 No. 28Summer 2017
Columns
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The European Mirror
Notebook
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Settlements: The Real Story
Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics. -
Silk Roadblock
Yo-Yo Ma's celebrated project for global understanding through music runs into Donald Trump's sour note. -
Ignoring Police Violence
Baltimore officials accepted a voluntary settlement to reduce police abuses. Jeff Sessions wants to kill it.
Culture
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State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice
Jim Crow was the descendant of Southern slavery. More shocking is the legacy of government-enforced racism in the North. -
Fiscal Purgatory in New York
How New York’s budget crisis was used to roll back expansive government -
The Long Arc of Protest
While digital media make it easier to spread activist messages, today’s movements face many of the same problems their forerunners did. -
Goodbye to All That Democracy
Can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality? -
Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?
The mixed record of America’s new rich as often self-interested philanthropists
Features
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The Wages of NeglectThe Wages of Neglect
Place Matters
As in the 1930s, progressives need economic development strategies for the left-behind regions of the country. -
The Wages of Neglect
The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base. -
The Wages of Neglect
The Pittsburgh Conundrum
Can you have a model city in a left-behind region? -
The Wages of Neglect
A Tale of Two Populisms
The elite the white working class loathes is politicians. -
The Wages of Neglect
Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers. -
The Wages of Neglect
Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class. -
The Wages of Neglect
Tilting at Windmills
Why the green jobs promise is still unfulfilled -
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion
The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics. -
Private Equity: The New Neighborhood Loan Sharks
Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again. -
Who Is Wilbur Ross?
From bankruptcy king to Trump’s king of commerce -
The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars
L.A. voters have chosen to tax themselves to build a citywide rail system. Can rail also resurrect the city’s long-vanished middle class? -
Charlie and the MBTA
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s privatization initiative at greater Boston’s transit authority has realized short-term savings—but the cure is still adequate public investment. -
Will Trump Kill the CFPB?
Created in response to the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned nearly $12 billion to consumers—which may be exactly why it’s now under threat.
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