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Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.

The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.

Taylor Sheridan has crafted an uneven, but potent, vengeance film rooted in the death of a young Native American woman.

When people decide to evacuate for hurricanes they have to consider whether leaving town might cost them their jobs.

Undocumented and indispensible; Beyond DACA; Artists in action; Black nativism; When conservative hearts bleed; Maria's thang about Serena

Based on her new book, writes Leopold, it is clear Hillary Clinton "is not interested in playing patty-cake for the sake of party unity in the Age of Trump. Screw that. She has accounts to settle."

The author is responding to the Atlantic article, “Are You Sure You Want Single Payer?,” She writes: "The article is a particularly irksome entry in a genre of story that dates back to the beginning of the Sanders campaign. Each one says, effectively: Single payer would be hard to do, are you sure you really want it? So let’s consider: What if, actually, single payer is good?"

It turns out . . . the real threat to the Homeland did not come from fringe radicals in the Middle East. Americans are more likely to be struck by lighting or fall down in their bathtubs and fatally hit their heads than they are ever to be negatively affected by Middle Eastern terrorism. Where did the real threat come from? From toxic carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

Ultimately Pruitt, Trump and even Rush Limbaugh, who called Irma a "liberal hoax," are only a fraction of the problem. Krugman continues: "Almost every senior figure in the Trump administration dealing with the environment or energy is both an establishment Republican and a denier of climate change and of scientific evidence in general."

A new report lays out how effective the assault on organized labor has been. The decline of unions—which now represent just over one in ten US workers, down from one in five from 1983—has been less about their value for workers than the result of a concerted effort to destroy the labor movement.