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Black History Month

Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them

Efforts to “fix” black students’ hair are a vestige of our segregated past that deemed blackness inferior.

Mar 5, 2019 / StudentNation / Andre Perry

The New Female Future 

The New Female Future  The New Female Future 

Handing it down.

Mar 5, 2019 / OppArt / Laura David

USICE

US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger

In Trump’s America, paperwork can be lethal. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Daniel Moattar

Municipal Workers

How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights

This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers.

Mar 5, 2019 / Sujatha Fernandes

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Strange News From Another Star… Strange News From Another Star…

What life on another planet can teach us about our own.

Mar 5, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Has Feelings, Too! Bernie Has Feelings, Too!

Democrats have borrowed liberally from Sanders’s policy book. The one thing they can't claim? His life story. 

Mar 4, 2019 / Matthew Zeitlin

The Time Is NOW

The Time Is NOW The Time Is NOW

The first month of 2019 in the USA: 1,201 gun deaths.

Mar 4, 2019 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Trump hugs American flag

Trump’s CPAC Rant Wasn’t a Speech—It Was a Breakdown Trump’s CPAC Rant Wasn’t a Speech—It Was a Breakdown

Trump may have come unglued at CPAC because his administration is coming unglued around him.

Mar 4, 2019 / Joan Walsh

Jerry Nadler

The Process of Holding Trump Accountable Has Finally Begun The Process of Holding Trump Accountable Has Finally Begun

House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler has moved “to begin the investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of...

Mar 4, 2019 / John Nichols

Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Will the New York State Democratic Party Oppose ‘Fusion’ Voting? Will the New York State Democratic Party Oppose ‘Fusion’ Voting?

New York’s state legislators should “just say no” to any attempt to limit democracy in New York.

Mar 4, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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