The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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Roy Moore’s Loss Signals a GOP Tearing Itself Apart Ahead of 2018

The upset win by Doug Jones in Alabama shows the Republicans have nothing to offer and everything to lose.

Theo Anderson

Culture

The Self-Help Guru Who Shaped Trump’s Worldview

How the commander-in-chief succumbs to the perils of positive thinking.

Chris Lehmann

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Meet the European Petrochemical Giant Trying to Profit from the Fracking of Pennsylvania

The controversial Mariner East 2 pipeline would carry gas liquids for plastics production overseas.

Wenonah Hauter

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Berniecrats Score Another Major Win Against the Democratic Establishment

Under proposed reforms pushed by backers of Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary would take place on a much fairer playing field than in 2016.

Cole Stangler

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Inside Honduras’ Torch-Lit Marches Against the U.S.-Backed Dictatorship

Thousands are defying military curfew to protest what they say is a fraudulent election.

Heather Gies

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The Limits of the “Resistance” in Congress? Key Democrats Back Trump’s Disastrous Israel Policy.

Trump's reckless move on Jerusalem was abetted by leading figures in the Democratic Party.

David Palumbo-Liu

Rural America

Cannibal Economics: Why the Black Snake Will Eventually Eat Itself

Winona LaDuke

Labor

Grad Students Take Tax Bill Fight to Paul Ryan’s Office

Sarah Jaffe

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Trump’s FCC Bids Farewell to the Internet as We Know It

The internet is about to become more expensive and far less free.

Mark Dunbar

Culture

Emmett Till’s Cousin on Why Mississippi’s Flag Is Still Racist

Edelia “Dr. Jay” Carthan is at the forefront of a movement to remove the Confederate “stars and bars.”

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

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When Billionaires Battle for Public Office, Working People Always Lose

The upcoming Illinois governor’s race is more proof that big campaign spending narrows political possibilities and increases inequality.

Emma Tai

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These Mainers Aren’t Ready To Give Up on Flipping Susan Collins’ Tax Vote

A conversation with Mike Tipping of the Maine People's Alliance.

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

The Specter Haunting Infowars

The new documentary A Gray State, executive produced by Werner Herzog, explores a murder-suicide that has become a far-right obsession.

Michael Atkinson

Rural America

Watch Live Seminars from the 2017 Young Farmers Conference

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Red Cross Is Instructing Truckers to Draw Blood and Nurses to Load Trucks

Kathy Wilkes

Dispatch

You’re a Sad Man, Jerry Brown

At the U.N. climate change Conference in Bonn, Jerry Brown couldn’t shake his hecklers.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

In the Face of the GOP’s Class-War Tax Bill, Chicago Activists Voice Outrage in the Streets

Timna Axel

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Why the Sanders-Warren Plan for Puerto Rico Is a Model for Climate Legislation

To repair after disasters—and prevent future ones—we can't be afraid to spend public money on things people need.

Kate Aronoff