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Why America Is Moving Left

Peter Beinart The Atlantic
Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation's statehouses - and could well win the presidency - but the liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning. The need to win the votes of Millennials and minorities, who lean left not just on cultural issues but on economic ones, will shape how whoever wins in the general election, and governs once in office.

The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness

TA-NEHISI COATES The Atlantic
Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism.

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The Crisis Facing America's Working Daughters

LIZ O’DONNELL The Atlantic
Many are familiar with the challenges faced by working moms, but the troubles of women with aging parents are unseen and widely ignored.

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Starbucks the Benevolent?

AMANDA RIPLEY The Atlantic
What would compel a massive company to start helping its employees pay rent and attend college?

The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America

Molly Ball The Atlantic
The Working Families Party has pushed the political debate to the left in the states where it's already active. Now-in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders-it's ready to take that fight nationwide. The WFP's agenda-frankly redistributionist and devoted to social equality-targets a class of Democratic elected officials who, in the view of many liberals, seem to listen more to their moneyed donors than to the left-wing rank and file.

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Who Gets Excluded From the Modern Economy?

REBECCA J. ROSEN, ADRIENNE GREEN, LI ZHOU, GILLIAN B. WHITE The Atlantic
Experts on banking and labor markets offer their reasons for optimism and pessimism going into 2016.

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The Military: An Alternative to the Brutalities of the Modern Economy

SCOTT BEAUCHAMP The Atlantic
The millions of service members who live on military bases around the world experience a kind of economic and social security that is foreign to most of America’s middle class. In the military, clothing, food, shelter, and medical care are guaranteed. And although it offers less choice about what to wear or where to live than the private sector, there’s a baseline of care for service members that doesn’t exist in the civilian world.
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