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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty

Unemployment, depopulation and the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County, Miss.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

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The Insurance Industry Would Make a Killing From Trumpcare

Trump and Ryan's AHCA is disliked by almost everyone besides private health insurers. There's a reason for that.

Wendell Potter

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How the New York Times’ Budget Coverage Keeps the Public in the Dark

Numbers without any context only serve to mislead the reader.

Dean Baker

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Eight Arrested as Activists March in Chicago To Protest Trump’s Budget

The president’s budget calls for deep cuts to a wide range of federal programs and departments.

Theo Anderson

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Only a Free Press Can Get to the Bottom of the Trump-Russia Scandal

This week's hearing shows that further inquiry—from both Congress and media—is necessary.

Michael Winship

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Interviews for Resistance: There’s Still Time To Shape the Budget—Here’s How

Trump ran on not being a regular candidate. But his budget shows that he is, in many ways, a typical Republican.

Sarah Jaffe

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What Immigrant Rights Activists Can Learn From the Original Sanctuary Movement

Organizers against U.S. intervention in Central America offered not just sanctuary, but solidarity.

Hilary Goodfriend

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Our Cotton Colonies

We follow a T-shirt’s supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.

Meta Krese, Photography by Jošt Franko

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How the Left Is Using Tea Party Tactics To Take On Both the GOP and the Democratic Establishment

Organizers are plotting a populist one-two punch.

Kate Aronoff

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Resister’s Digest: Grilling Gorsuch and Taking It to the Streets Against Trumpcare

Hearings start this week for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick.

Theo Anderson

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From the Alt-Right to the White House, White Nationalism and Misogyny Go Hand in Hand

Sexism and racism are deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing—you can’t understand one without the other.

Rachel Johnson

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Staughton Lynd Is Building a New World in the Basement of the Old

The longtime lawyer and advocate on steel, SNCC and carving spaces beyond capitalism.

Moshe Z. Marvit

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Pregnant Women and Mothers Are Being Criminalized By Their Care Providers

Under the guise of protecting children, American law makes motherhood even harder.

Linda C. Fentiman

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Trump and the GOP Want to Make It Even Easier for Police to Get Military Gear

Should police get rifles, riot gear and armored vehicles from the Pentagon? The nation's largest police union thinks so—and it has the ear of the Trump administration.

Seth Kershner

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Defending Truth Is a Radical Act of Resistance

The Trump administration’s gush of lies corrodes democracy on many levels.

Theo Anderson

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George W. Bush Was a Godawful President

The media's nostalgia for Bush is not only ill-informed—it's dangerous.

Branko Marcetic

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The End of American Democracy: 30 Seconds to Midnight

A professor at Yale University talks about what history can teach us.

Matthias Kolb

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The Right-Wing Machine Behind the Curtain

The radical conservative Heritage Foundation has spent 40 years trying to gut the federal budget. Now Trump is proving to be the perfect tool.

Theo Anderson

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Republicans Are Legislating Like There’s No Tomorrow

Forget about the future. The GOP just wants what it wants—now.

Theo Anderson

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Trump’s Budget Will Be a Disaster for the Climate—And Not Just in the Ways You Think

From increased military spending to tax cuts for the wealthy, everything about the new administration's economic agenda seems tailor-made to help the planet burn.

Kate Aronoff

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Resister’s Digest: How to Join the Fight Against the GOP’s Trumpcare

Events are taking place all over the country this week.

Theo Anderson

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How the Democratic Establishment Beat Back Keith Ellison’s DNC Bid

Despite the setback, progressives remain determined to democratize the party and empower the left wing.

Cole Stangler

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Interviews for Resistance: The Opioid Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis Rooted in Poverty

A healthcare organizer in Maine talks about the importance of engaging people wherever they are.

Sarah Jaffe

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If You Think Trump’s at War With the Deep State, Take Another Look at His Policies

The president is no populist, and he'll only strengthen the influence of illiberal extra-constitutional power structures.

Mike Lofgren