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Cradle to Grave
January 30, 2018
Like abortion, the lack of action on maternal mortality is connected to ideology. Under capitalism, a woman’s body is a means of production like any other.

The Reaching-Out Industry
January 30, 2018
A whole new cottage industry has popped up seeking a more earnest, direct conversation, begging Trump voters to sit down and explain: how exactly did we get this way?

Fresh Hell
January 26, 2018
Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion. This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...

Presidential Confusion
January 26, 2018
Imagine being a presidential scholar in this moment when the highest office in the land has been captured by a barely literate showman.

Memory Keepers
January 25, 2018
Polish women captured the world’s attention when they went on strike, staging massive protests across the country, and successfully halted a proposed ban on abortion.

No Filter
January 24, 2018
What is perhaps as consistent as the badness of Instapoetry is the general unwillingness to speak openly of its badness.

Frozen
January 22, 2018
The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.

Fresh Hell
January 19, 2018
Now Entering: The Comfort ZoneTM Is the integrity of your spiritual being under assault in this frightful epoch of data mining and climate degradation? Do you wish you could attain, if only for a fleeting moment, a sense of mindfulness in the midst of this unending horror show? ...