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Decriminalize Fare Evasion

You don’t go to jail for missing a highway toll. It shouldn’t be any different on transit.

Republicans are trying to throw 23 million Americans off their health care — in a pandemic.

Here’s what I learned when I stopped trying to convince anyone of anything.

Donald Trump, Roger Stone, and the art of the deal.

With youth unemployment and student debt skyrocketing, young people need free higher education.

The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change.

From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change.

Anti-racist work can be emotionally difficult. Take time to process your feelings — but don’t forget the big picture.

There are some edifices the Trump administration is perfectly willing to topple.

Essential workers aren’t being treated like our lives are essential at all.