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Yemeni Bodega Owners Strike to Say ‘We Are America’ Yemeni Bodega Owners Strike to Say ‘We Are America’

Among the thousands who gathered in Brooklyn were many whose families had been directly affected by Trump’s immigration bans.

Feb 3, 2017 / Julianne Hing

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Words in the Age of Trump Words in the Age of Trump

Along with a new president, Americans are confronted with coming to grips with a new vocabulary.

Feb 3, 2017 / Leslie Savan

Everything Donald Trump Did in His Second Week as President

Everything Donald Trump Did in His Second Week as President Everything Donald Trump Did in His Second Week as President

A botched military raid in Yemen, a two-for-one regulatory gimmick, and the appointment of a new deputy director at the CIA who oversaw torture.

Feb 3, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter and George Zornick

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New York’s Immigrants Aren’t Done With Trump New York’s Immigrants Aren’t Done With Trump

Are the outspoken protests by working-class immigrants the beginning of a powerful new front against Trump?

Feb 3, 2017 / Michelle Chen

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Donald Trump’s Power Is Scary, Not His Mental Health Donald Trump’s Power Is Scary, Not His Mental Health

Psychiatrists are speaking out to warn of the dangers of Trump’s instability, but politicizing mental health is a mistake.

Feb 3, 2017 / Miriam Markowitz

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Donald Trump Has Begun a Frontal Assault on Financial Reform Donald Trump Has Begun a Frontal Assault on Financial Reform

Friday’s executive order is mainly just a message, but it's a scary one.

Feb 3, 2017 / David Dayen

Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity

Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity

For the great urbanist and social critic, the planning of cities was always an ad hoc affair.

Feb 3, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

How the US Tests Out Some of Its Most Oppressive Domestic Policies on the World

How the US Tests Out Some of Its Most Oppressive Domestic Policies on the World How the US Tests Out Some of Its Most Oppressive Domestic Policies on the World

From reproductive rights to incarceration, the rest of the globe has been a laboratory for some of our country’s  worst policies.

Feb 2, 2017 / Michelle Chen

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Barack Obama Radically Expanded Our Appreciation of African-American History Barack Obama Radically Expanded Our Appreciation of African-American History

By preserving sites that have been central to the black experience, Obama helped revitalize our civic religion.

Feb 2, 2017 / Robert Greene II

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Hundreds of New York Bodegas Are on Strike Today Against Trump’s Muslim Ban Hundreds of New York Bodegas Are on Strike Today Against Trump’s Muslim Ban

The Yemeni-American diaspora is hitting back against the new administration’s Islamophobic travel ban.

Feb 2, 2017 / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

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