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Trump’s America Is Like a Dystopian Novel, With One Importance Difference Trump’s America Is Like a Dystopian Novel, With One Importance Difference

We’re not readers, but active participants—with the ability to rewrite the ending.

Mar 13, 2017 / John Feffer

Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order

Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order

Despite profound discontent, the prospect of an exit from the neoliberal orthodoxies of the past 40 years terrifies even those who know how much they have suffered from it.

Mar 6, 2017 / Perry Anderson

Trump Arrives SOTU

Don’t Be Fooled by Trump’s Latest Reality Show Don’t Be Fooled by Trump’s Latest Reality Show

Trump showed he can play a president on TV Tuesday, but that’s it. 

Mar 1, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage

Trump on the campaign trail

Is Our President Bonkers? Is Our President Bonkers?

Maybe, but this screwball won because he saw something about the American condition that neither Democrats nor Republicans have the nerve to acknowledge.

Mar 1, 2017 / William Greider

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Trump’s Budget Proposal Is an Attack on the Working Class Trump’s Budget Proposal Is an Attack on the Working Class

Trump’s vision to make America great again would actually eviscerate the already disintegrating social safety net.

Feb 28, 2017 / Michelle Chen

McDonald's Minimum Wage Protest

Demand That Congress and State Lawmakers Reject So-Called ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws Demand That Congress and State Lawmakers Reject So-Called ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws

With Republicans in control of Congress, the White House, and 32 statehouses across the country, organizers are hard at work beating back so-called “right-to-work” laws.

Feb 27, 2017 / NationAction

Can a Sanders Democrat Win the New Jersey Governor’s Race?

Can a Sanders Democrat Win the New Jersey Governor’s Race? Can a Sanders Democrat Win the New Jersey Governor’s Race?

John Wisniewski is fighting Wall Street money and the party machine.

Feb 22, 2017 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss and Barbara Dreyfuss

Socialism’s Return

Socialism’s Return Socialism’s Return

After more than a half-century in the wilderness, the socialist left reemerges in America.

Feb 21, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Iber

Forget the Musical—Alexander Hamilton’s Real Legacy Is the Poverty-Stricken City He Founded

Forget the Musical—Alexander Hamilton’s Real Legacy Is the Poverty-Stricken City He Founded Forget the Musical—Alexander Hamilton’s Real Legacy Is the Poverty-Stricken City He Founded

So why are the leaders of Paterson, NJ,  so eager to capitalize on his memory?

Feb 21, 2017 / Feature / Richard Kreitner

Donald Trump

Populists in Place Populists in Place

He promised the forgotten working folks
 He’d get elites from Wall Street off their backs. His team is here. It’s mostly billionaires And guys who used to work at Goldman Sachs.

Feb 16, 2017 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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