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Policymakers should reconsider how the tax code treats the most well-off. Here is a closer look.

We get a crash course in how the bounty-hunting system works, complete with the Bounty Hunters Guild taken extremely literally as an actual unionized workforce of bounty hunters. There are labor disputes over clients refusing to pay guild rates.

Arkansas teachers and students face a well-funded school privatization effort backed by major corporate entities with influence that stretches from the Governor’s office to the state Board of Education to the University of Arkansas.

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.

It's About More Than Fighting Abuse—It’s About Workplace Democracy

While many factors contributed to Bolivia’s current upheaval, the pattern of rightist revanchism, the role of oligarchic forces, external actors, and the military suggests we are witnessing a coup. And those resisting the coup are under great threat.

Legislation introduced in the House by AOC, the Senate by Sanders, aims to turn federally-owned public housing properties into more functional communities, by building in healthier grocery stores, community gardens, and child care centers.

Democratic infighting over Medicare for All is unnecessary and dangerous. To criticize a plan that is in-depth and thoughtful, and addresses the very issues we need to address, and has the support of enormous numbers of Americans, is a big mistake.

The DACA case involves some legal uncertainty. And while there are obvious differences between slavery and deportation, the way antebellum courts in free states thought about the security of their brown-skinned residents is instructive.

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