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  • Inequality
    The "Great" Reopening is Setting America's Schools Up to Fail
    August 24, 2020
    A schoolteacher in Portland, Oregon, shares her thoughts on the Covid crisis and returning to the classroom.
  • Inequality
    The One Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Taxes Every Year
    July 10, 2020
    | David Sirota

    The problem here isn’t that we lack the knowledge to fix things — the problem is our political system.

  • Democracy & Government
    Donald Trump's Addiction to Violence
    September 21, 2017
    | Henry Giroux
    The president has normalized violence by emboldening the idea that it is the only viable political response to social problems.
  • Environment
    The War on Climate Change
    September 19, 2017
    | Michael Klare
    As the Trump administration shuts down anything faintly connected to global warming, only one institution isn’t now run by deniers and that’s the US military.
  • Health & Science
    My Sister Is a Veteran; Her Survival Depends on Congress
    September 14, 2017
    | Cecilia Plante
    She served her country and worked hard to provide for her family. She would be lost without Medicaid.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump Is Trying to Cut Disaster Relief to Build a Wall
    August 31, 2017
    | Jeremy Slevin
    Emergency preparedness and national security — core government functions — are taking a backseat to his "big, beautiful wall."
  • Democracy & Government
    Democrats Are Fighting Among Themselves, and That’s OK
    August 15, 2017
    | Robert Borosage
    When parties are in the wilderness, they need a healthy debate about ideals.
  • Economy & Work
    Back-to-School Is More Expensive This Year; Here’s Why
    August 8, 2017
    | Jeff Bryant
    Slashing education budgets at the federal, state or local level doesn't save money; it just shifts costs somewhere else.
  • Democracy & Government
    Infighting Slows ALEC Push For Constitutional Convention
    August 3, 2017
    | Mary Bottari
    But the group continues to pursue a highly partisan, highly political agenda to rewrite the Constitution adding a fiscal austerity amendment to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Democracy & Government
    'Skinny Repeal Bill' — A Trojan Horse for Broader ACA Repeal
    July 27, 2017
    | Robert Greenstein
    If the Senate rejects this gambit, the bipartisan process advocated by McCain and various governors and members of Congress of both parties could finally begin.


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