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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

Labor

Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying “Deaths of Despair”

Stephen Franklin

Rural America

To Upend Corporate Agriculture, Americans Need to Understand Basic Farm Policy

Mark Willsey

Labor

Momentum Builds for Massive West Coast May Day Strike

Jonathan Rosenblum

Culture

View of the Swamp from Across the Pond

As the U.K. barrels toward Brexit, Trump provides Britain with another bizarre spectacle.

Jane Miller

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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

Labor

The Dangers of Salting Under Trump

Nick Johnson

Culture

The Best Police Money Can Buy

In the Fox series APB, police misconduct doesn't exist, and privatization and technology can fix any problem.

Kristian Williams

Rural America

Sonny Perdue Heads to Senate Ag Committee for Confirmation Hearing

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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

Labor

Paid Sick Leave Bill Provokes Showdown in Maryland

Bruce Vail

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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

Labor

How States Are Trying to End the Disability Unemployment Crisis

s.e. smith

Rural America

A Pipeline Is Leaking Natural Gas into Alaska’s Cook Inlet ... and Has Been for 3 Months

Lorraine Chow

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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