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A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder

A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder

Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is unlike any border story you’ve read before.

Jun 10, 2019 / Joshua Rivera

Faces of Virginia Beach

Faces of Virginia Beach Faces of Virginia Beach

The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people on May 31 went room to room in the city's municipal building using a silencer that one survivor said made the semiautomatic firearm ...

Jun 10, 2019 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Richard Descoings

Can France Diversify Its Elite With Affirmative Action? Can France Diversify Its Elite With Affirmative Action?

How to achieve educational diversity when race and ethnicity are off the table.

Jun 10, 2019 / Valentine Faure

Jay Inslee

Dammit, Democrats! Organize a Climate Debate! Dammit, Democrats! Organize a Climate Debate!

The DNC has made a morally and practically wrong choice with its rejection of proposals for a debate on the existential issue of our time.

Jun 7, 2019 / John Nichols

Diamonte Brown

The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore

Social-justice teacher caucuses have emerged in cities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, and St. Paul, and now they’re banding together to help those in Baltimore.

Jun 7, 2019 / Rachel M. Cohen

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Nuclear Disarmament: The View from Moscow Nuclear Disarmament: The View from Moscow

Putin has taken advantage of Trump’s policies to create a political atmosphere of fear and public support for nuclear armament.

Jun 7, 2019 / Reese Erlich

Mette Frederiksen

The European Left’s Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Turn The European Left’s Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Turn

In Denmark, the center left returned to power only by lurching to the right on immigration.

Jun 7, 2019 / Karina Piser

Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Nas X perform

A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash

Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”

Jun 7, 2019 / David Hajdu

Mike Pompeo

The Trump Administration’s Intended Withdrawal From the INF Treaty Threatens National Security The Trump Administration’s Intended Withdrawal From the INF Treaty Threatens National Security

The Senate must respond to President Trump’s recklessness by asserting its constitutional powers.

Jun 7, 2019 / William A. Nitze

In Drugs We Trust

In Drugs We Trust In Drugs We Trust

The darkness of addiction.

Jun 7, 2019 / OppArt / Nicky Enright

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