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Cutting Food Aid Promotes Hunger, Not Work

As a kid, food stamps helped me eat, study, and succeed as an adult. Americans today deserve the same investment.

For me, it’s a gateway to pain relief. For others, its prohibition is a gateway to mass incarceration.

Thoughtful plantation tours can help us lean into our discomfort — and reconcile a painful past.

America’s wealthiest billionaires buy a national election at $100 a vote — and still make money.

What does America need now? I know — another billionaire candidate.

Racism means a lot more than using slurs or feeling hatred. Yet even in these narrow terms, Trump fits the bill.

We have a victim, a suspect, and a murder weapon.

Low-wage jobs catering to the wealthiest Americans are now growing twice as fast as other jobs.

The wealthiest Americans dominate our airwaves. Let’s hear from someone else for a change.

When turnout climbs, Republicans lose. No wonder they’re closing polling places and purging voters all over the country.