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Demonstration supporting refugees

Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects? Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects?

While the Madrid-based leadership has been mired in factional infighting, regional representatives and allies offer inspiring alternatives.

Mar 1, 2017 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

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

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Here’s How to Get the Most Out of TrumpCare Here’s How to Get the Most Out of TrumpCare

If it doesn’t work for you, try to die without too much noise.

Feb 28, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow

Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’

Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’

Investing in women and girls does much more to keep us safe and promote peace than does spending even greater amounts on weapons designed to cause mass devastation.

Feb 28, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Texas voter ID

Trump’s Justice Department Is No Longer Opposing Texas’s Discriminatory Voter-ID Law Trump’s Justice Department Is No Longer Opposing Texas’s Discriminatory Voter-ID Law

Jeff Sessions reverses the Obama administration’s position in a crucial voting-rights case.

Feb 27, 2017 / Ari Berman

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Trump’s Ascent Was Possible Only in an America Already Run by Billionaires Trump’s Ascent Was Possible Only in an America Already Run by Billionaires

We were living in a 1 percent society long before we elected a billionaire for president.

Feb 27, 2017 / Tom Engelhardt

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

Tom Perez DNC

Tom Perez Will Be a Strong Fighter for Civil Rights Tom Perez Will Be a Strong Fighter for Civil Rights

The new DNC chair opposed voter-ID laws, investigated police misconduct, and protected workers’ rights.

Feb 27, 2017 / Ari Berman

Planned Parenthood Funding Cut

We Can Fight Trump’s Cuts to Essential Government Programs We Can Fight Trump’s Cuts to Essential Government Programs

His budget agenda has everything do with right-wing ideology and nothing to do with fiscal responsibility.

Feb 24, 2017 / William D. Hartung

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