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  • Writing wrongs: the pioneering New York prison program transforming lives – video

    Can writing turn lives around? In the Bronx, the Prison Writes program is trying to do just that, and help young people move on from their past mistakes

  • Pine Ridge piece

    Liquid genocide: alcohol destroyed Pine Ridge reservation – then they fought back

    For years, 11,000 cans of beer a day were poured into the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, causing untold damages. This summer, it finally stopped
  • Time to roll. Writer Drew Philip walks towards the first ride out of Michigan. Michigan/Ohio border.

    Why I hitchhiked the Rust Belt in search of the American man

    The state of American masculinity is in flux as blue-collar jobs vanish. Drew Philp travels the midwest and Appalachia to find out what that looks like
  • Alissa Quart

    Our new TV antiheroes are just like us: they don’t want to fall out of the middle class

    Alissa Quart
    What do shows such as Ozark, Billions and Empire have in common? They’re a new kind of aspirational television, about a 1% that lives with impunity
  • Chah-Tah Gould on his ancestors’ land.

    Most Native Americans live in cities, not reservations. Here are their stories

    This summer, Joe Whittle decided to document the experiences of some of the 140,000 Native Americans who call the Bay Area home
  • The lights of downtown Los Angeles shine behind the Quick Bail Bonds building on Vignes Street across from Men’s Central Jail, Monday, February 7, 2005. (Photo by Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    TV made America's bail system famous. Now reformers want to end it

  • Jess Svabenik, family leave<br>Jess Svabenik, holds newborn Roman Svabenik, age two weeks, at their home in Gig Harbor, Washington on August 8, 2017. Jess is a barista at Starbucks who gets eight weeks of unpaid maternity leave. (© Karen Ducey)

    At Starbucks, your maternity leave depends on whether you're a barista or a boss

  • In the fall, Shelby Eagan the fifth grade in the fall at Sunny Pointe Elementary School in Blue Springs, Mo. Eagan moved back to Missouri when she couldn’t make ends meet working in the Oklahoma public school system.(Photo/ Julie Denesha)

    Oklahoma isn't working. Can anyone fix this failing American state?

    Poverty, police abuse, record prison rates and education cuts that mean a four-day school week. Why are public services failing Oklahomans?
  • Leo Adley Dyson, Sr.

    Climate change will likely wreck their livelihoods – but they still don't buy the science

    The small Louisiana town of Cameron could be the first in the US to be fully submerged by rising sea levels – and yet locals, 90% of whom voted for Trump, still aren’t convinced about climate change
  • Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Detroit poses for a portrait on the campus of the University of Michigan, his alma mater, in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. The Democratic primary will take place on Aug. 7, 2018.

    'The new Obama': will Abdul El-Sayed be America's first Muslim governor?

    The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics
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    The job no one wants: why won't young people work in logging?

    Construction is booming – and yet loggers are facing a labor shortage. Can new technology attract young people to a life in the forest?
  • Fran Marion outside her friend's home

    The homeless Popeyes worker fighting for fair wages in Missouri – video

  • Piece on working two jobs in Missouri

    Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless: 'It's economic slavery'

  • Maia Szalavitz

    Why social capital could be the key to solving America’s overdose epidemic

    Maia Szalavitz
    Researchers are exploring how community, connection and trust could help protect society’s most vulnerable
  • On Wednesday August 9th, 2017 Amy Knight poses for a portrait in her hometown of Lebanon, OR at Century Park where she attends a free summer meal program.  Knight works at a grass seed research company. Photo by Leah Nash

    Hunger in America: 'When your eldest child skips meals, it’s no way to live'

    A decade ago, low-income Oregonians were forced to choose between spending money on healthcare and food. Today, that trade-off has shifted to choosing between housing and eating
  • Alissa Quart

    Automation is a real threat. How can we slow down the march of the cyborgs?

    Alissa Quart
    Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting human workers – and decelerate the push to automate jobs
  • June 29, 2017: Marian Kramer ​works from her offices at the Central United Methodist Church in downtown Detroit.

    No water for poor people: the nine Americans who risked jail to seek justice

    To live without water means no bath time for your kids, no cooking and no useable toilets. As the city of Detroit cut water to 83,000 homes since 2014, nine activists put their bodies on the line to protest
  • Alissa Quart

    'Lunch shaming' and other humiliations: how can we teach our kids about class?

    Alissa Quart
    Wealth and class are difficult topics to discuss – but as children grapple with inequality, it’s our job to address it


    Outclassed: The Secret Life of Inequality is our new column about class. Read all articles here
  • Mentor Marsh Nature Preserve in Ohio

    Crossing the divide: my journey from an Ohio mobile home to New York City

    Adam Theron-Lee Rensch on ‘crossing that invisible divide between rural white trash and urban bourgeois elite’
  • MARIE THE TOWN HISTORIAN AT HOME

    Under siege by liberals: the town where everyone owns a gun

    Nucla, Colorado, was founded by socialists before becoming a mining town. Now, as wealthy liberals with different values encroach, the town is fighting for its economic survival
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