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  1. America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis FLINT, MI - JANUARY 26: Matt Hopper holds and comforts Nyla Hopper, age 5 of Flint, after she has her blood drawn to be tested for lead on January 26, 2016 at Eisenhower Elementary School in Flint, Michigan. Free lead screenings are performed for Flint children 6-years-old and younger, one of several events sponsored by Molina Healthcare following the city's water contamination and federal state of emergency. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … In truth, the United States has scores of “Flints” awaiting their moments. Think of them as ticking toxic time bombs -- just an austerity scheme or some official’s poor decision away from a public health disaster. Given this, it’s remarkable, Continue reading
  2. How Did We Become A Billionaires’ Republic? Demonstrator Randall Grey protests a taxation of the wealthy during a rally at Occupy Wall Street San Diego on Oct. 13, 2011 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1905. Holmes was dissenting from the Court’s majority opinion in Lochner v. New York, which held that the New York Continue reading
  3. Recommended Reading: Fiscal Cliff Deal The lights of the U.S. Capitol remain lit into the night as the House continues to work on the "fiscal cliff" legislation proposed by the Senate, on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    1 Jan 2013 … Want to know more about the 11th hour deal Congress and the White House reached early Tuesday morning? Here’s a collection of articles explaining what’s in the deal and differing viewpoints on the consequences. Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: Congress Looks Like a Million Bucks and Duck Dynasty’s Fake Rednecks
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  5. “Slavery to Mass Incarceration” Screenshot from 'Slavery to Mass Incarceration'
    7 Jul 2015 … A new video from the Equal Justice Initiative sets out to explain how the myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved. Continue reading
  6. The ‘Caravan Against Fear’ Wants You to Stay Home from Work on May 1 On day 8 of the Caravan Against Fear's journey, hundreds gathered to protest Los Angeles County Sheriff McDonnell's opposition to California sancutrary bill SB54 and his collaboration with ICE. (Photo courtesy of Caravan Against Fear)
    4 Apr 2017 … A coalition of community leaders, immigration advocates, labor groups and workers are touring the Western US to highlight the plight of immigrant workers and urge people to "shut it down" this Labor Day in protest of Trump's policies. Continue reading
  7. Going Multiracial Rinku Sen
    8 Aug 2013 … The demands of the March on Washington weren’t just about reshuffling the racial order; they repudiated racial hierarchy itself. Continue reading
  8. Jeanette Winterson
    9 Sep 2010 … Jeanette Winterson is a poet and novelist who has authored over 20 books. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006 for services to literature, and, in 2011, her memoir WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD Continue reading
  9. Why We Must Try DURHAM, NH - FEBRUARY 08: Audience members listen to Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speak at a campaign rally and concert at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center Arena on February 8, 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. Sanders was campaigning on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the nation's first. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’ll be lucky if we prevent Republicans from repealing Obamacare. We shouldn’t try Continue reading
  10. America Now Has (at Least) 9,999 Problems Latinos vote at a polling station in El Gallo Restaurant on Nov. 8, 2016 in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … When I wrote this piece, “The Hole in Obama’s Legacy,” for The New Yorker back in August, I did not, even briefly, imagine that Obama’s failure to reach the white working class would lead to a Trump presidency. I thought Continue reading