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Politics
Packing the Supreme Court?
“If elected, will you pack the Supreme Court? " The right wing is going nuts. Asking this question over and...
Government shutdown: Who is really to blame?
Government shutdown: Who is really to blame?
About 48 hours into the government shutdown, Senate leader Mitch McConnell took the stage, and made a pledge....
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Race and religion
Our Prison System. WTF?
We have more people in prison in the US, per capita, than almost any other nation on earth. Take this poll, and let us...
Quizzes
Activism
The First Win in the Trump Era – Updated
Updated 2/9/17 to reflect the BIG WIN in the 9th Circuit Court. So we won our first battle against the Trump administration. Thousands of people...
Immigration
The Human and Economic Impact of Revoking DACA
They have jobs and families and car payments and mortgages. They are teachers and bank tellers and plumbers and hairdressers and students and entrepreneurs...
Mahmood’s American Dream
Mahmood's American Dream
I first met Mahmood back in 1989. I was teaching a class in US History and Civics for immigrants who had gotten...
Deporting US Citizens. Accidently.
The deportation of 11 million human beings currently residing in the United States without proper documentation. Yup. Donald Trump says he will do it. ...
The First 664,607 Human Casualties of a Trump Presidency
Donald Trump has promised that on his first day in office, he will dismantle the lives of 664,607 young people. They haven't broken any...
Do Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes?
There is a very popular myth that the immigrants living in the US without papers are syphoning off resources that could be used to...
Guest Posts
The United Failure of America
The United Failure of America by Don P. Hooper / @madclownétry there I sat
watching the map bleed red
with the hatred that would
wash away decades of progress:
the failure...
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Arts and Culture
The 7 Train: Photos of America’s most diverse communities
Street photographer, Bruce Armstrong, has spent more than a decade photographing the metal, the movement, and the people of the majestic 7 train. Traversing...
