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Margaret Atwood: The Shocking Relevance of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Margaret Atwood: The Shocking Relevance of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Margaret Atwood: The Shocking Relevance of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

The dystopian novel is seeming more prescient by the year.

Apr 28, 2017 / Jon Wiener

Kendrick Lamar’s Statement of Faith

Kendrick Lamar’s Statement of Faith Kendrick Lamar’s Statement of Faith

With his excellent fourth album, DAMN., the rapper has given us an album that is as concerned with America as it is with God.

Apr 28, 2017 / Marcus J. Moore

US Capitol

It’s Not a Government Shutdown. It’s a Right-Wing Coup. It’s Not a Government Shutdown. It’s a Right-Wing Coup.

Programs designed to help the vulnerable are gutted, while institutions designed to serve the rich and powerful remain unscathed.

Apr 28, 2017 / Adam Johnson

Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly

From Fox News to ‘Breitbart’: Liars, Harassers, and Far-Right Bottom-Feeders From Fox News to ‘Breitbart’: Liars, Harassers, and Far-Right Bottom-Feeders

I’ve argued for years that treating Fox as legitimate was a terrible mistake. The rise of Breitbart shows I should have been even more cynical.

Apr 28, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman

Protestors at the capitol building in Puerto Rico

Students Are Now Leading the Resistance to Austerity in Puerto Rico Students Are Now Leading the Resistance to Austerity in Puerto Rico

Some $40 billion of the island’s debt could be illegal—so why is the government shutting down the audit commission?

Apr 27, 2017 / StudentNation / Ed Morales

Barack Obama University of Chicago Speech

Do We Need Obama in the Trump Resistance? Do We Need Obama in the Trump Resistance?

We’ve got a president who wants to take away people’s health care, build a border wall, and ban refugees. Should Obama attack him directly?

Apr 27, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Rutgers University protest

Professors and University Staff Call For Campuses to Shut Down on May Day Professors and University Staff Call For Campuses to Shut Down on May Day

Students, staff, faculty, and administrators are asking the university community to take action in solidarity with A Day Without Immigrants. 

Apr 27, 2017 / StudentNation / NationAction

US Special Forces in Mali

Secret US Military Documents Reveal a Constellation of American Military Bases Across Africa Secret US Military Documents Reveal a Constellation of American Military Bases Across Africa

Newly disclosed numbers contradict more than a decade’s worth of dissembling by US Africa Command.

Apr 27, 2017 / Nick Turse

medicare for all protest

Single-Payer ‘Medicare for All’ Is the Only Health-Care System That Makes Sense Single-Payer ‘Medicare for All’ Is the Only Health-Care System That Makes Sense

Bernie Sanders and the nurses are right: America needs a “Medicare for All” health-care system. And the change can begin in California.

Apr 27, 2017 / John Nichols

Black Butte Coal Mine

Saving Coal Country by Ending Coal’s Empire Saving Coal Country by Ending Coal’s Empire

A Kentucky coalition has plans to make Appalachia’s transition from fossil fuels a boon for local empowerment.

Apr 27, 2017 / Michelle Chen

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