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The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler

A horrific new ruling would let states execute people in more painful ways, even when alternatives are available.

Here’s a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.

Undertaker of democracy and innovation.

Communities have a right to say what they need. Why is it only a problem when certain communities speak up?

One of the worst parts of experiencing homelessness is the utter exhaustion. But getting rest can be transformative.

Collusion with corporations has always been hiding in plain sight. It takes real people to fight that — not an elite prosecutor.

But America doesn’t.

It’s time to update our nation’s civil rights laws to protect LGBTQ+ people.

For most of us, when we rate how we’re doing in our jobs, we don’t say, “Nobody can prove I committed a crime!”

I’m a registered nurse from rural Iowa. In communities like mine, privatized care is an extractive industry — and it’s drying up.