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Susan Orlean’s Tale of Arson and Unfulfilled Dreams

Susan Orlean’s Tale of Arson and Unfulfilled Dreams Susan Orlean’s Tale of Arson and Unfulfilled Dreams

The Library Book is more than a work of true crime; it is a study of Los Angeles and the burning ambition of the people who flock to it.

Mar 6, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson

Everything Is Pretend

Everything Is Pretend Everything Is Pretend

Why don’t you know how to listen?

Mar 6, 2019 / OppArt / Jen Sorensen

Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City

Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City

Documents reveal that the immigration enforcement agency has been keenly attuned to left-leaning protests in the city. 

Mar 6, 2019 / Jimmy Tobias

A homeless child

We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It? We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It?

A new report outlines how to help millions of US children living in poverty. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate

A conversation about Trump, Russia, and the New Cold War.

Mar 5, 2019 / The Nation

Migrant caravan in Tijuana

Trump Is Fetishizing Death to Justify His Cruelty at the Border Trump Is Fetishizing Death to Justify His Cruelty at the Border

The president is furthering a legacy of brutality that stretches back to the Mexican-American War.  

Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Grandin

Terry Miller Andraya Yearwood

Transphobia’s New Target Is the World of Sports Transphobia’s New Target Is the World of Sports

First it was bathrooms, now it’s athletics.

Mar 5, 2019 / Dave Zirin

Ro Khanna introduces Yemen resolution

Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy

The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.

Mar 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Ilhan Omar

The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty

I’m Jewish and have worked against anti-Semitism for decades. I was sitting a few feet from Omar at Busboys & Poets and I heard nothing—nothing—that smacked of anti-Semitism, o...

Mar 5, 2019 / Phyllis Bennis

Protest against Publix Supermarkets

Take Action Now: March With Organizing Farmworkers Take Action Now: March With Organizing Farmworkers

Plus fight back against Trump’s fake national emergency and get involved with a youth climate strike.

Mar 5, 2019 / NationAction

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