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Donald Trump Is Coming for Your Medicare
The selection of Tom Price to head HHS brings the president-elect into alignment with Speaker Paul Ryan.
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Silicon Valley–backed Bridge International Academies repeatedly failed to comply with national education standards.
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The 45th President
Donald Trump Is the Greatest Threat to American Democracy in Our Lifetime
His lies about voter fraud are a prelude to massive voter suppression.
Ari BermanDonald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization
The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals—and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one.
Seth Freed WesslerNation Voices
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016
January 1, 1959: Fidel Castro Seizes Power in Cuba
Unless you have been violently evicted from your country’s presidential palace, you are already having a better new year than Cuban president Fulgencio Batista was having at this point in 1959.
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?
Castro’s death comes at a particularly delicate stage in the ongoing effort to normalize Cuba-US relations.
Peter KornbluhResistance
How Do You Stop Trump? Boycott Debt.
We need to distract Trump. Student loans are a good place to start.
Ravi Mangla‘All Resistance Is Local’: A Plan of Progressive Action for the Trump Years
Here’s how states and cities can lead the fight against the Trump administration—and build a new political order.
Heather Gerken, David Bollier, Gary Gerstle and Gar AlperovitzWhy I’m Getting Arrested During Today’s National Day of Disruption
In the age of Trump, the Fight for $15 offers a rare model of bravery, boldness, and solidarity.
Brad Lander
Culture
Seeing Mars, Seeing Red
As the climate warms and this planet of ours continues sprinting toward extinction, we’re seeing the cultural fixation with Mars take center stage.
Sam Sax
The Personal Is Political, But Not Always Fictional
What is the novelist Intizar Husain’s theory of Pakistani history?
Ratik Asokan
Darcy James Argue’s Terrific Thrill
A staggeringly ambitious album explores the themes of cultural paranoia and false truth.
David HajduWatch and Listen
Watch: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons
What we can learn from one of the great organizers in American history.
November 15, 2016
Listen: Start Making Sense: The Real Revolution of 2016 was Not Trump’s
Mike Davis on how Trumpism won’t last long. Plus Joan Walsh on women voters, Kai Wright on Obama and race, and Adam Shatz on “law and order.”
November 17, 2016
Watch: Getting a Birth Certificate For a US Citizen Should Be Easy. If You’re an Immigrant Mother, It’s Not.
Who knew verifying citizenship could be so difficult?
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