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What’s Killing America’s Black Infants?

What’s Killing America’s Black Infants? What’s Killing America’s Black Infants?

Racism is fueling a national health crisis.

Feb 15, 2017 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

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The Trump-Bibi-Murdoch Love Triangle Puts Us All at Risk The Trump-Bibi-Murdoch Love Triangle Puts Us All at Risk

Flouting the laws and sacrificing truth, the new mogul empire is a perpetual-motion machine fueled almost entirely on bullshit.

Feb 14, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman

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What Did President Trump Know and When Did He Know It? What Did President Trump Know and When Did He Know It?

Michael Flynn is out, but until there’s an investigation by Congress, we’re at the mercy of intelligence leaks for the story.

Feb 14, 2017 / Joan Walsh

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Donald Trump Has Pulled an Epic Bait-and-Switch Donald Trump Has Pulled an Epic Bait-and-Switch

Putting a Goldman Sachs alum in charge of the Treasury Department proves the Big Lie. 

Feb 14, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage

Rafael Correa

Ecuador’s Left-Wing Success Story Ecuador’s Left-Wing Success Story

It doesn’t fit with neoliberal orthodoxy, but President Rafael Correa has made remarkable progress. Will the next government sustain it?

Feb 14, 2017 / Mark Weisbrot

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Conservative Media Embrace a Bogus ‘Terror Study’ to Justify Trump’s Travel Ban Conservative Media Embrace a Bogus ‘Terror Study’ to Justify Trump’s Travel Ban

An honest reading of their data reveals just how pointless the policy really is.

Feb 14, 2017 / Joshua Holland

Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home

Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home

The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.

Feb 14, 2017 / Hannah Gold

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China First, Russia Second, America Third: Trump’s Real Foreign Policy China First, Russia Second, America Third: Trump’s Real Foreign Policy

Despite all his talk, the president isn’t prioritizing American interests.

Feb 14, 2017 / Michael T. Klare

Mayor De Blasio at the Apollo

Can a Push for ‘Good Jobs’ Solve New York City’s Affordability Crisis? Can a Push for ‘Good Jobs’ Solve New York City’s Affordability Crisis?

To fight inequality, New York City’s mayor vows to create 100,000 jobs paying more than $50,000 a year.

Feb 14, 2017 / Jarrett Murphy

Journalists watch GOP debate

The Trump Administration’s Other War on the Media The Trump Administration’s Other War on the Media

Trump wants to give his corporate allies full control of our media ecosystem. A people-powered movement demanding an open and free Internet is what it will take to stop him.

Feb 14, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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