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CNN’s New Book Is a Master Class in How Not to Cover an Election

The news network's instant retrospective on the Trump-Clinton race is as vacuous as their initial coverage was.

Chris Lehmann

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Keith Ellison and Bernie Sanders: How To Remake the Democratic Party

The two congressmen discuss Donald Trump, Ellison's bid for DNC chair and how progressives can actually win.

Keith Ellison and Bernie Sanders

Culture

This Christmas, Go See a German Comedy About Consulting. No, Really.

Filmmaker Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann takes a wise and whimsical look at the struggles women face in the corporate world.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

5 Ways Unions and Workers Centers Can Defend Immigrant Members

Sonia Singh

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“Hope Not Hate”: A Roadmap for Navigating the Racist Backlash Against Neoliberalism

Anti-fascist organizing in post-Brexit Britain offers lessons for Trump’s America.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Six Flags Great America Not So Great for Foreign Work-Visa Students

Rebekah Frumkin and Enrica Nicoli-Aldini

InvestigationGoodman Institute

At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence

A 6-month investigation into the largest maximum-security state prison in the country.

Katie Rose Quandt and James Ridgeway

Culture

The Android Manifesto: Finding Marx in Westworld

The HBO drama is a surprisingly astute tale of alienated labor and false consciousness.

Eileen Jones

Labor

With Too Few Workplace Inspectors, OSHA Targets Worst of the Worst

Paul Feldman and Stuart Silverstein

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Rogue One May Be the Most Leftist Star Wars Film Yet

In the age of Trump, we need all the rogues we can get.

Kate Aronoff

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The GOP Made Kansas a Test Case for Faith-Based Economics. The Results Aren’t Pretty.

Many of the same policies that blew a hole in the state budget are headed to the White House.

Theo Anderson

Culture

Dissident-Poet on the Lam: A New Film Captures Pablo Neruda’s Year as a Fugitive

Pablo Larrain's Neruda follows the love-poet-cum-Communist-dissident in a cat-and-mouse chase with the Chilean government.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

“Si se Pudo!”: Hotel Workers Win Union in Santa Monica, California

Samantha Winslow

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Did Trump Retaliate Against Twitter Because It Refused to Help Him Build a Muslim Registry?

The official explanation for why CEO Jack Dorsey didn’t get an invite to Trump’s tech meeting leaves a lot to the imagination.

Kate Aronoff

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The Saudi-Led War on Yemen Has Been Devastating. Why is the U.S. Helping?

Despite Tuesday's announcement they'd cut some arms sales, the U.S. is continuing to assist a bombing campaign that has killed and injured thousands, and exacerbated famine and cholera outbreaks.

Rebecca Gordon

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The Democrats Need a Shadow Cabinet

If Hillary Clinton had learned anything from the election, here's what she would say.

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Rural America

West Virginia, “Identity Decline” and Why Democrats Must Not Look Away From the Rural Poor

Lauren Kaori Gurley

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“People Power Works”: What’s Next for Standing Rock’s Water Protectors

The fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline is far from over. But the victories against it offer lessons for resisting Trump.

Kate Aronoff