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An Ugly New Era of “States’ Rights”

Giving extreme new powers to autocratic, gerrymandered, and unaccountable state governments is not democracy.

He’ll come for every right, eventually.

The Poor People’s Campaign marched on Washington to demand action on poverty. Here’s why one pastor joined them.

With democracy itself under siege, Attorney General Merrick Garland must uphold his oath to defend the Constitution.

At America’s biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.

Closing our racial wealth divide requires bold thinking, but so did ending slavery.

So need to feed, teach, or protect them.

A well-heeled lobby, a paranoid minority, and the GOP have made it all but impossible to regulate the leading cause of death for American kids.

I serve domestic violence survivors as a social worker. The toxic public shaming of Amber Heard will discourage some from ever speaking up.

When the privates become public, the public is screwed.