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The Cruelty of Republican States In One Chart

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Pray

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Oct 4, 2013

Public prayer before a football game is clearly unconstitutional. So why do schools keep doing it?
The Wendy Davis Scouting Report

Abby Rapoport

Oct 3, 2013

How does the new prospect look going into her first big-league season?
You’re Tearing Us Apart, Tommy!

Tom Carson

Oct 4, 2013

Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s new book, The Disaster Artist, basks in the delightful weirdness of The Room and its chief architect.

Poverty

America's Neediest Families Are About to Run Out of Money
Monica Potts
Video Games

There's No Fighting in the War Game!
Rowan Kaiser
Guilty Pleasures

Why Liberals Love TV's Fictional Conservatives
Tamara Winfrey Harris
Post-Bankruptcy

Michael Bay Blows Up Detroit
Edmund Zagorin
From Our New Issue

Daddy's Home!
Sharon Lerner
Eric Holder's Big Voting-Rights Gamble
Abby Rapoport
Gun Fights

Talking Second-Amendment Rights in China
Will Ford
Elections

Dave Bing’s Detroit
Anna Clark
Cruz Blues

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tom Carson

Is a Lack of Hope Killing Poor White Women?

"For every member of every group in every race that doesn't graduate from high school, the past 18 years have been devastating," Monica Potts said on Melissa Harris-Perry's show this weekend. "The jobs available to them don't pay very well ... they don't provide a ladder to the middle class. Something about that, something about really not having hope for your own future, may be shortening their life spans."

Must-Reads

Pandora's Box

Jeff Saginor

Oct 1, 2013

How do we harness the power of 3-D printing while protecting ourselves from its dark side?
This Madness Will Never End

Paul Waldman

Oct 1, 2013

So long as there's a Democrat in the White House, the fever will never break.
Racing to Run a City without a Motor

Anna Clark

Oct 2, 2013

Unpacking the Detroit mayoral race, where the two Democratic candidates are duking it out for the chance to lead under emergency manager Keyvn Orr’s shadow.
John Boehner Has Speaker Tenure for Life—If He Wants It

Jonathan Bernstein

Sep 30, 2013

The factors making Boehner’s life a living hell are external to his personal quirks and failings. Anyone else would have the same problems.
The Day after Shutdown

Jonathan Bernstein

Sep 23, 2013

Well, that happened. Here's the step-by-step guide to how Congress and the White House end this mess.
The Conservative Plan for Medicaid Expansion

Abby Rapoport

Sep 19, 2013

The five most important takeaways from the experiments in Iowa and Arkansas

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The Magazine

Vol. 24 No. 4

July 2013

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What's Killing Poor White Women?

Monica Potts

For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why.

Fashioning Justice for Bangladesh

Robert Kuttner

Western multinationals are behind disasters like the Bangladesh factory collapse. Will public outrage and a new labor agreement lead to improvements for workers?

L.A. Story

Harold Meyerson

The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: a new model for American liberalism?

The Withered Writ

Lincoln Caplan

Habeas corpus, the age-old means for prisoners to challenge their detention, has never been more restricted than it is now.

Los Infiltradores

Michael May

How three young undocumented activists risked everything to expose the injustices of immigrant detention—and invented a new form of protest.

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Blogs

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Daily Meme: Politics is Dumb. And Stupid.

Jaime Fuller

Oct 04, 2013 4:32 PM

Restorative Justice's After-School Special
Bryce Stucki
Oct 04, 2013 3:30 PM
Would You Let a Robot Watch You Undress?
Paul Waldman
Oct 04, 2013 2:25 PM
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McCutcheon Money: How Citizens United 2 Could Increase the Power of Elite Donors

Adam Lioz, Blair Bowie

Oct 04, 2013 1:06 PM

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The Cruelty of Republican States in One Chart

The states rejecting the expansion of Medicaid are the ones that already make it the hardest for poor people to get insured.

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What Happens to Conservatism When the Obamacare War Is Over?

Over the last four years, Obamacare swallowed conservatism whole. Where will they go now?

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The Wendy Davis Scouting Report

How does the new prospect look going into her first big-league season?

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