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Sold ShortJanuary 5, 2023MagazineBryce CovertStarbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.After a banner year for organizing the retail and service industries,

workers are learning a hard truth about labor negotiations.Share This StoryNovember 28, 2022MagazineJohn SemleyThe Improbable Site of Conservatives’ Latest Backlash Against “Wokeness”How

election deniers, covid skeptics, and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator are disrupting the upstate New York retreat for the elites.Share This StoryOctober 25, 2022MagazineTimothy NoahMay God

Save Us From EconomistsOver the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but

it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.Audio playback is available for this articleShare This StoryOctober 3, 2022MagazineBecca AndrewsHow an Underground

Network of Ministers and Rabbis Helped Women Get Abortions Before RoeBefore the religious right co-opted the issue, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion worked to merge religion and

reproductive rights.Share This StorySeptember 23, 2022MagazineEmily CookeDefund Social WorkersThey’re often just cops by another name. Share This StoryAugust 29, 2022MagazineJasper

CravenThere’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Scammy NonprofitThe IRS has lost its ability to investigate tax-exempt organizations. What will that mean for our political system?Share This

StoryAugust 23, 2022MagazineKalena ThomhaveHow Red States Use Regressive Grocery Taxes to Feed the Rich Conservative state legislatures are using pandemic-era surpluses to give tax cuts for

the wealthy while maintaining unfair flat taxes that punish the poor.Share This StoryJuly 28, 2022MagazineMelissa Gira GrantThe Arizona Republican Primary Is Ground Zero for America’s

Hysteria Over Critical Race Theory and Drag QueensKari Lake and other far-right candidates have latched onto a controversy in the Scottsdale school district whipped up by conservative

mothers.Share This StoryJuly 5, 2022MagazineBryce CovertAfter the Eviction MoratoriumThe long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing

courtAudio playback is available for this articleShare This StoryJune 23, 2022MagazineChris PomorskiWhen Innocence Isn’t EnoughChristopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a

murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of Missouri says he must stay there—because he wasn’t sentenced to death.Audio playback is available for this articleShare This StoryMay

19, 2022MagazineTracy Rosenthal Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial ComplexJust 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost

half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.Audio playback is available for this articleSh

are This StoryMay 10, 2022MagazineMadeleine SchwartzYou Go to the Labor Ward, andYou Are Treated Like MeatA Polish reproductive rights lawyer recounts the extraordinary obstacles women in

Poland have faced since the country prohibited nearly all abortions.Share This StoryMay 9, 2022MagazineBecca AndrewsThe Last Abortion Clinic in Knoxville Draws Patients From Hours Away. What

Happens If It Disappears?Tennessee is one of 13 states with “trigger” laws that would fully outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.Share This StoryMay 5, 2022MagazineMelissa Gira

GrantThe Growing Criminalization of PregnancyThe end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages. Share

This StoryApril 4, 2022MagazineAmanda Chicago LewisLegalized Pot Was Supposed to Help Build Black Wealth in Los Angeles. It Failed. Social equity programs were supposed to correct the

disparities of the war on drugs as marijuana became legal. What went wrong?Audio playback is available for this articleShare This StoryMarch 14, 2022MagazineLori Teresa YearwoodEvictions Are

Back. Black Renters Are Suffering the Most—Again.In Indianapolis, like many American cities, the long shadow of segregation continues to punish Black neighborhoods—to the disproportionate

benefit of white landlords.Share This StoryFebruary 21, 2022MagazineNiran Al-Agba When Your Doctor Isn’t a Doctor Thousands of urgent care clinics have popped up over the last decade. How

safe are they?Audio playback is available for this articleShare This StoryFebruary 17, 2022MagazineRachel M. CohenWall Street’s New Foe Is a Close Ally of Elizabeth WarrenCan Rohit Chopra

revive the CFPB after Trump let it languish?Share This StoryFebruary 11, 2022MagazineThe New RepublicWho Said It: Jeff Bezos or Michael Scott?See how well you know your bad bosses.Share This

StoryNovember 23, 2021MagazineLynNell HancockWhen Denver Lost Its Mind Over Youth Crime How the city’s media created public panic over a crime wave that wasn’t and dismantled Colorado’s

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