Michael Tomasky

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NOT JUST THE IVIES

The Right’s New Higher-Ed Target: Community Colleges

Right-wing anger at ‘leftist’ institutions is no longer limited to Cambridge and Palo Alto and New Haven. It just spread to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Richard A. Greenwald

SAME SWAMP

The Capitol Rioters-Pro-Life Extremist Connection Is Real

The Jan. 6 insurrectionists included some anti-choice extremists. This is not a coincidence.

Julie A. Burkhart

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FREE-MARKET FEMINISM

‘Women’s Empowerment’ Was Ivanka’s Biggest Grift of All

Ivanka Trump, global champion of women? A new General Accounting Office report says otherwise, and in a big way.

Erin Gloria Ryan

BUILD BACK BETTER

Infrastructure Week Is Finally Here. Let’s Have This Fight.

With this package, corporations are being pressed to put up or shut up. An economy that serves all Americans costs money—and it needs to come from them that’s got it.

Michael Tomasky