Tennessee’s second-largest city has become a national model for eliminating the scourge of abandoned buildings and vacant lots.
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Mnuchin Fails The ‘Mnuchin Test’
The Treasury secretary trips himself up trying to justify a tax cut that cannot possibly benefit the working class.
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How the NRA Made the Gun a Symbol of Tribal Identity
For years, the gun lobby has framed opposition to gun regulation as being the on the side of angels in America’s culture wars.
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Dredging Memory
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new documentary is an immemorial tale of men at war, almost Homeric in its directness and simplicity.
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Low Unemployment Doesn’t Increase Wages Like It Used To
Full employment is still necessary, but rebuilding the middle class also requires dethroning shareholders and boosting worker power.
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The Right’s Legal Attacks Go After Remaining Fragments of Worker Power
Conservatives’ crusade to limit worker rights through the courts is coming to a head.
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Welfare Hypocrisy at Work in Washington
Republicans say that work trumps welfare. So why didn’t Trump’s Health and Human Services Department approve an Ohio plan to help welfare recipients get jobs?
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The World Doesn’t Care About TPP
The trade deal was never about curbing China or maintaining U.S. influence in Asia.
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Bidding Bon Voyage to Tom Price
The former Health and Human Services secretary who spent his political career trying to cut back health-care coverage for millions of Americans won’t suffer much once he lands on his feet.
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States Take on Student Debt Abuses as the Trump Administration Defaults
While the administration rolls back the weak protections that exist, more than a dozen states have proposed reforming the largely unregulated student loan industry.
