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Byproducts of the Pandemic

Byproducts of the Pandemic Byproducts of the Pandemic

An ocean of garbage.

Mar 12, 2021 / OppArt / Janis Selby Jones

Biden’s Rescue Plan Will Be a Huge Benefit for Undocumented Workers

Biden’s Rescue Plan Will Be a Huge Benefit for Undocumented Workers Biden’s Rescue Plan Will Be a Huge Benefit for Undocumented Workers

This federal sea change in policy comes after years of efforts by Western states to reimagine their social safety nets.

Mar 12, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

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So What the Hell Is Race Norming? So What the Hell Is Race Norming?

Former NFL players accuse the league of racial bias in how it doles out concussion settlement money. Their suit has exposed a practice that belongs in history’s trash can.

Mar 12, 2021 / Dave Zirin

Biden foreign policy

Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past

It’s past time to give the narratives of the 20th century a decent burial. Doing so may be a precondition for our very survival.

Mar 12, 2021 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Chinese and Djiboutian national flags

The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West

China has no interest in destroying the system on which its success was built.

Mar 12, 2021 / Kehinde Andrews

Oprah Winfrey interviews Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price

The response to Harry’s abandoning that contract, both in the Buckingham Palace and British media, has been swift, overt and punitive.

Mar 12, 2021 / Kali Holloway

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The Acquittal of Derek Chauvin Has Already Begun The Acquittal of Derek Chauvin Has Already Begun

The jury selection process, which started this week, shows how the cop who killed George Floyd can, and likely will, win.

Mar 11, 2021 / Elie Mystal

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sign the American Rescue Plan Act.

Democrats Make a Down Payment on a Radically More Just Economy Democrats Make a Down Payment on a Radically More Just Economy

The American Rescue Plan goes beyond Covid relief to address the deep inequities the pandemic revealed. Will those changes be a Band-Aid, or heal a broken system?

Mar 11, 2021 / Joan Walsh

NYC Essential Worker

We Need to Rethink Employment in the Biden Era We Need to Rethink Employment in the Biden Era

Joe Biden has campaigned on the promise of “good wages, benefits, and worker protections.” More than that, jobs should contribute to a better life for workers.

Mar 11, 2021 / Rebecca Gordon

Stacey Plaskett’s ‘How Dare You?’ Indictment Demolished a Dog-Whistling Republican

Stacey Plaskett’s ‘How Dare You?’ Indictment Demolished a Dog-Whistling Republican Stacey Plaskett’s ‘How Dare You?’ Indictment Demolished a Dog-Whistling Republican

After Glenn Grothman claimed advocates for Black lives don’t like “the old-fashioned family,” Plaskett gave him no quarter.

Mar 11, 2021 / John Nichols

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