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Who Will Be the Barbara Lee of the Next Great Disaster? Who Will Be the Barbara Lee of the Next Great Disaster?

And will we believe her this time?

Oct 22, 2021 / Rebecca Gordon

Farmworkers in California

Environmental Justice Is Essential in the Workplace and at Home Environmental Justice Is Essential in the Workplace and at Home

No worker should be forced to choose between an unsafe job and unemployment.

Oct 22, 2021 / David Michaels and Robert Bullard

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Manchin’s Shameful Child Care Stance Isn’t Just Bad Politics. It’s Self-Defeating Policy. Manchin’s Shameful Child Care Stance Isn’t Just Bad Politics. It’s Self-Defeating Policy.

The senator is forcing a choice among four crucial pillars of a holistic solution to help struggling families.

Oct 19, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways? Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development insists it’s “inclusive,” but it’s still strong-arming countries in the Global South.

Oct 19, 2021 / Steven Dean

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Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue

Our carbon bootprint… The forgotten forever war… Fuzzy math… Feminism: left and white? (web only)…

Oct 19, 2021 / Our Readers and Rafia Zakaria

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Poverty Can Happen to Anyone Poverty Can Happen to Anyone

Our new podcast, Going for Broke, lets Americans living on the edge have the last word.

Oct 18, 2021 / Podcast / Ray Suarez

Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.

Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible. Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.

Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.

Oct 15, 2021 / Mike Konczal

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America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By

Time to begin the dirty, essential work of undigging our history, before it kills us all.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Gregg Gonsalves

How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful

How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful

A conversation with author Eyal Press about the men and women who do this country’s most maligned jobs and the psychic toll it takes on them.

Oct 14, 2021 / Q&A / Jasmine Liu

The Unsure State of Asian America

The Unsure State of Asian America The Unsure State of Asian America

A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”

Oct 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho

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