The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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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

Rural America In These Times

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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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Labor

What Slashing the Labor Department Budget by 21 Percent Would Mean

Elizabeth Grossman

Rural America

The Rural-Urban Divide in Six Charts

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