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Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 23, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Why Black Lives Matter Is Taking On Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

Feature

Activists Push the Democrats for Real Solutions on Climate Change

The Democrats' climate platform beats the Republicans', but it doesn't go far enough.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Trump Has Concocted a Dangerous New Blend of Pseudo-Leftism and Nativist Populism

The RNC showed Republicans are moving in a new, and frightening, direction.

Theo Anderson

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Is Hillary Clinton a Progressive? Not If She Chooses Tim Kaine

By choosing Tim Kaine as her vice president, Clinton signaled that she values progressives in name and vote only.

Jodi Jacobson

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Yale Worker Who Shattered Racist Window: ‘People are Tired of Being Victims’

Corey Menafee tells In These Times what brought him to the breaking point.

Michelle Chen

Feature

U.S.-Led Airstrikes Just Killed 85 Syrian Civilians—And the Corporate Media Looked Away

More died than in last week's Nice, France attack, but far fewer words were written.

Adam Johnson

Labor

Wall Street Vultures May Have Wrecked the Central States Pension Fund

Bruce Vail

Feature

Ted Cruz’s Speech Was the Final Sign of the GOPocalypse

The party of Lincoln is going up in flames--and embracing it.

Chris Lehmann