Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / TruthdigMar 4, 2018
The U.S. judicial system routinely provides unfair trials and coerces defendants—often poor people of color, and often innocent—into accepting plea deals that call for brutally long sentences. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 19, 2016
That begins with understanding how Democrats failed to address the mass trauma wrought by deindustrialization and its resulting racism. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Sherry Linkon / Moyers & CompanyAug 19, 2016
After plants closed, the economic, social and psychological effects continued for decades and across generations. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatchApr 20, 2015
The city that was the arsenal of the 20th century may also provide the blueprint for a more precarious era: 100,000 of its residents are on what many call an eviction “conveyor belt.” Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
By William Astore, TomDispatchJan 26, 2012
“Makin’ Thunderbirds” is about auto workers back in 1955 who were “young and proud” to be making Ford cars. But in the early 1980s, Bob Seger sings, “the plants have changed and you’re lucky if you work." Now America's plants make the deadliest of weapons. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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