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Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America arrives at history's crossroads

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Military funding concept (Getty Images/Salon)

America's "warfare state" rolls onward

David Masciotra
President Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the Oval Office after the House passed the $700 billion financial bailout bill at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. | US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Late capitalism primed us for pandemic

Bob Hennelly
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Jewel Samad)

It's winter in America

Bob Hennelly
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Plate with just crumbs (Getty Images)

The piecemeal welfare state

Keith A. Spencer
Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Libraries are becoming refuges

Bob Hennelly
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Jazmine Headley, center, joins attorney Brian Neary and her mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. (AP/Mike Catalini)

How we punish working mothers

Amanda Marcotte
Dwight Eisenhower; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

When the right was "enlightened"

Conor Lynch
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Trump ramps up war on the poor

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Seth Wenig)

Poor, white people more pessimistic

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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Bernie Sanders addresses an audience during a rally. (AP/Steven Senne)

Are socialists the real "pragmatists"?

Conor Lynch
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Preserving dynamism in a volatile world

Samuel Hammond - Niskanen Center
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If so, who foots the bill?

Valerie Vande Panne - Alternet
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An empty defense of Harvest Boxes

Jeremy Binckes
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Paul Ryan; Mick Mulvaney (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Alex Brandon)

Why work requirements don't work

Ed Dolan
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How I became a bureaucrat

Bernardo Zacka
Mitch McConnell; Paul Ryan (AP/Evan Vucci//Getty/Mark Wilson)

The GOP's biggest budget lies

Paul Rosenberg
Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

GOP's Romney revival

Simon Maloy
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Joni Ernst (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa's Tea Party disaster

Elias Isquith
Paul Krugman (Reuters/Anton Golubev)

Krugman on Eurozone job growth

Elias Isquith
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