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Take Action Now: Support Local Journalists

Take Action Now: Support Local Journalists Take Action Now: Support Local Journalists

Subscribe to your local paper, then help protect the news industry from Big Tech and President Trump.

Jun 11, 2019 / NationAction

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Is Proving Her Doubters Wrong Elizabeth Warren Is Proving Her Doubters Wrong

The presidential race is better with her in it.

Jun 11, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Richard Descoings

Can France Diversify Its Elite With Affirmative Action? Can France Diversify Its Elite With Affirmative Action?

How to achieve educational diversity when race and ethnicity are off the table.

Jun 10, 2019 / Valentine Faure

Diamonte Brown

The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore

Social-justice teacher caucuses have emerged in cities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, and St. Paul, and now they’re banding together to help those in Baltimore.

Jun 7, 2019 / Rachel M. Cohen

Bernie Sanders & Kristin Gillibrand Medicare for All

Medicare for All Needs a Change of Message Medicare for All Needs a Change of Message

Single payer is essential, but most voters still don’t get that.

Jun 6, 2019 / Colin McAuliffe

Refugee child in Hungary

Open Borders Must Be Part of Any Response to the Climate Crisis Open Borders Must Be Part of Any Response to the Climate Crisis

The alternative is the death of millions and a world fractured by nationalism.

Jun 6, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Airport line

The Haves and Have-Nots of Big Data The Haves and Have-Nots of Big Data

A “global firewall” is redrawing lines between countries—and people.

Jun 5, 2019 / Matthew Longo

Shutdown Worker

Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response

Piecemeal reforms won’t do the job.

Jun 4, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue

A Nation of Elites? Katha Pollitt’s trenchant first-person account of the 1969 student strike at Harvard University [“Harvard’s Strike at 50,” May 20/27] raises a question about Th…

Jun 4, 2019

Worker surveillance at Amazon

The Inequalities of Workplace Surveillance The Inequalities of Workplace Surveillance

When bosses watch over our every move, the data they collect ends up making us even more unequal.

Jun 3, 2019 / Joelle Gamble

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