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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
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
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Poor, white people more pessimistic

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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
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
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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