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Supports at Silicon Valley Rising Launch

Silicon Valley’s Wealth Gap Silicon Valley’s Wealth Gap

The tech hub is becoming completely unaffordable for the service employees who work there.

Feb 12, 2016 / Michelle Chen

3 Questions Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Should Answer at Tonight’s Debate

3 Questions Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Should Answer at Tonight’s Debate 3 Questions Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Should Answer at Tonight’s Debate

What will the Democratic candidates say to voters whose livelihoods have been destroyed by austerity?

Feb 11, 2016 / John Nichols

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Letters From the February 29, 2016, Issue Letters From the February 29, 2016, Issue

Hunger pains… waging good journalism… Nader’s debaters…

Feb 11, 2016 / Our Readers and Liza Featherstone

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.

Feb 10, 2016 / Feature / Michelle Alexander

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

The Misdiagnosis of Terrorism The Misdiagnosis of Terrorism

The real violence threatening America is that of our immoral public policy choices, at home and abroad.

Feb 9, 2016 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water

Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water

Environmental racism is an issue of political power: Polluters and waste sites are placed where politicians expect little or no political backlash.  

Feb 9, 2016 / Tracey Ross and Danyelle Solomon

How Many Flints Are There?

How Many Flints Are There? How Many Flints Are There?

In a country where 500,000 children have substantial amounts of lead in their bodies, Flint is no anomaly.

Feb 9, 2016 / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Yale Student

When the Biggest Employer in Town Isn’t Employing the Town When the Biggest Employer in Town Isn’t Employing the Town

Can activists force New Haven institutions to see job creation as a civic duty, not just a byproduct of financial investment?

Feb 5, 2016 / Michelle Chen

To Fix the Racial Wealth Gap, We Need Solutions That Sound Radical

To Fix the Racial Wealth Gap, We Need Solutions That Sound Radical To Fix the Racial Wealth Gap, We Need Solutions That Sound Radical

If progressives want to improve the conditions in underserved and underdeveloped communities, then bigger and bolder policy solutions are required.

Feb 3, 2016 / Steve Phillips

Democratic presidential candidate Sanders greets students after a town hall meeting with students at George Mason University in Fairfax

How Bernie Sanders Is Challenging a Downsized Politics of Excluded Alternatives How Bernie Sanders Is Challenging a Downsized Politics of Excluded Alternatives

Why we need a grown-up conversation about taxes.

Feb 2, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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