The tech giants are menacing democracy, privacy, and competition. Can they be housebroken?
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It Will Take More Than Single-Payer to Make Baltimore Healthy
More than lack of access to health care, the ongoing legacies of Jim Crow diminish African Americans’ health.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Revving Up Rural Public Transit
Small communities create unique transportation programs that reduce reliance on cars and improve residents’ local connections.
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When Soft Power Salutes Despots
American diplomacy once leaned against aspiring dictators. But Trump found reasons to cozy up to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte at this week’s ASEAN meetings.
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Fossil-Free Finance
The surprising successes of the divestment movement as an anti-carbon organizing strategy
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The Proselytizers and the Privatizers
How religious sectarian school voucher extremists made useful idiots of the charter movement Â
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NAFTA, the Cross-Border Disaster
The trade treaty, now up for renegotiation, has displaced millions of Mexican workers, and many thousands of U.S. workers as well.
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Unfriendly Skies
It’s time to admit that airline deregulation has failed passengers, workers—and economic efficiency.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Art of the Border: Searching for Kikito
A French artist’s colossal installation on Mexico’s side of the border may make the invisible visible, but other subjects carry a sharper critical edge and pose deeper questions.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Slip Sliding Away on Nantucket
Year-round residents and wealthy summer visitors lock horns over housing and fighting erosion on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.
