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From the Magazine
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Fall 2017
Francis Revives the Workers’ Church
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Fall 2017
Weakening Medicaid From Within
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Fall 2017
Desegregated, Differently
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Not Britain’s Finest Hour
Must-Reads
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Bannon’s Revolution Is About Power -- and Money
Oct 19, 2017
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A Baker’s Toxic Recipe for Discrimination
Oct 18, 2017
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Scott Pruitt’s Dirty War on Clean Water
Oct 10, 2017
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The Vietnam War: A Conversation with Ken Burns
Sep 15, 2017
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States Take on Student Debt Abuses as the Trump Administration Defaults
Oct 2, 2017
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Kentucky Sends an Ominous Signal About The Future of Medicaid
Sep 28, 2017
The Magazine
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Vol. 28 No. 4Fall 2017
Columns
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An American Way for America Now
Why the country needs a Democratic party that knows it needs white working-class voters
Notebook
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When Soft Power Salutes Despots
American diplomacy once leaned against aspiring dictators. Trump eggs them on. How much global influence does the U.S. really have—for good or evil? -
Low Unemployment Doesn't Increase Wages Like It Used To
Full employment is still necessary, but rebuilding the middle class also requires dethroning shareholders and boosting worker power. -
It Will Take More Than Single Payer to Make Baltimore Healthy
More than access to health care, the ongoing legacies of Jim Crow diminish African Americans' health and longevity. -
Weakening Medicaid From Within
The Trump administration is poised to misuse its legal authority in an effort to cull people from the Medicaid rolls.
Culture
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How She Lost
Malpractice cost Clinton the election, but her ambivalence on big issues was produced by big structural factors that affect all Democrats. -
Where the Republican Party Began
Sidney Blumenthal's new volume in his biography of Lincoln explores the role of leadership in the remaking of American politics in the 1850s. -
Can Love Conquer Hate?
Will the increasing prevalence of intermarriage lead to broader empathy and understanding?
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The American HeartbreakThe American Heartbreak
Despair Is Not an Option
The Trump presidency is not the end of the American story. -
The American Heartbreak
What Will It Take for Black Lives to Matter?
Nonviolent, cross-racial coalitions are the only way back to a decent America. -
The American Heartbreak
White Nationalism and Economic Nationalism
Democrats can't compete with Bannon on racism—and shouldn't—but they can certainly outdo him when it comes to good jobs. -
Unfriendly Skies
It's time to admit that airline deregulation has failed passengers, workers—and economic efficiency. -
Slaying the Partisan Gerrymander
With extreme gerrymanders on the rise, it is time for the Supreme Court—and the states—to curb a practice that has gotten out of control. -
Francis Revives the Workers’ Church
The Catholic Church in America—once an ally of workers and their unions—grew deferential to big money in recent decades. Now, prompted by the Pope, a new generation of labor priests and bishops is trying to change that. -
Real Tax Reform: What It Is and What It Isn’t
Trump’s proposed tax cuts, mostly on corporations and the wealthy, will do nothing to help the people who elected him president. -
The Freedom Caucus’s Man on the Inside
Mick Mulvaney has his dream job as director of OMB. Given the general chaos in Trump-world, what can he make of it? -
Not Britain’s Finest Hour
If Brexit actually happens, those most harmed will be the people who voted for it. How did Britain get into such a mess, and how might she yet muddle out of it? -
France and Germany: An Aging Couple Carries On
Merkel and Macron need each other, as emblems of a still vital European center. But can Macron deliver more than symbols, and will Merkel take her foot off Europe’s oxygen hose? -
The Proselytizers and the Privatizers
How religious sectarian school voucher extremists made useful idiots of the charter school movement -
Fossil-Free Finance
The surprising successes of the divestment movement as an anti-carbon organizing strategy -
Desegregated, Differently
Half of Hartford’s schoolkids attend integrated schools, thanks to a legal strategy that might work elsewhere.
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