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Trump vs. the Media: Who Will Win?

The media and Trump are in an all-out battle. Here’s what the mainstream press is doing well and what it needs to do better.

Susan J. Douglas

Dispatch

How San Francisco Student Activists Made College Free Again

City College of San Francisco will be the first in the nation to offer free tuition to all city residents.

s.e. smith

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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

Viewpoint

Don’t Wait for Nuremberg: Congress Must Investigate the American Eichmanns

Troubling reports suggest border agents are going above and beyond to enforce Trump's will.

Chris Edelson

Labor

Republicans Are Racing To Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy

Elizabeth Grossman

Feature

The End of American Democracy: 30 Seconds to Midnight

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

Matthias Kolb

Labor

6 Reasons Why Donald Trump Won’t Save American Jobs

Les Leopold

Feature

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

Rural America

Native Americans Fear GOP Budget Cuts Will be the Death of Tribal Radio

Christine Trudeau

Feature

Republicans Are Legislating Like There’s No Tomorrow

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

Theo Anderson

Feature

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