Topic: social contract

Flanked by industry workers, President Donald Trump speaks at a White House signing ceremony for executive orders to revive clean coal technology. (ANDREW THOMAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Appalachia clings to Trump

Jim Branscome
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

Americans don't get the social contract

Jack Shuler
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The American social contract

Robert Reich