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Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours. Many realize tha…

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A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legacy today.

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On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one …

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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

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