Republicans amp up their race-to-the-bottom approach to economic development.
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The Long Arc of Protest
While digital media make it easier to spread activist messages, today’s movements face many of the same problems their forerunners did.
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U.S. vs. North Korea: The Winner? China
China has no reason to restrain Kim too soon, or for too modest a price.
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Conditions Worsen for ICE Detainees Following Hunger Strike
Guards at the Adelanto Detention Center responded to asylum seekers’ hunger strike with violence and pepper spray.
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The ‘Many Sides’ of Trump’s Moral Rot
He can’t even bring himself to pretend to oppose white supremacists and neo-Nazis—and every Republican who supported him is culpable.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Racist Silence
By his refusal to condemn white nationalism after the Charlottesville murder, Trump acknowledges that virulent racism is the linchpin of his presidency.
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Want to Bring Down Drug Prices? Go After the Middleman
“Pharmacy benefit managers”—companies that claim to lower prices—actually jack them up.
Posted inEducation in America
Under Trump, Liberals Rediscover School Segregation
The president’s racism has opened the door for a franker discussion of school choice.
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West Virginia’s One Progressive Party
By the standards of other states’ Green Parties, West Virginia’s Mountain Party has had surprising success in establishing a foothold—chiefly because the Democrats there are the nation’s most conservative.
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No, a Fair Wage Is Not a ‘Free Lunch’
A liberal Washington Post columnist drinks the trickle-down Kool-Aid about raising the minimum wage.