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Children as Young as Three Detained 500 Days and Counting in Disgraceful Immigrant Prisons By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet At "Berks Family Residential Center," kids contemplate suicide as their mothers go on hunger strike. READ MORE» Is Purple America Vanishing as Americans Take More Fervent Partisan Stands? By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet 2016's county election results suggest yes. But other demographics suggest maybe not. READ MORE» The Insidious Effect on the Pysche of Trump's Torrent of Lies By Neil Baron, AlterNet Research shows that repeating a lie, even to refute it, imprints it on our brain. READ MORE»

Editorial: How We Can Fight Donald Trump and Authoritarianism By Don Hazen, AlterNet We need you in this incredibly important fight. READ MORE» The Power of Ordinary People Facing Totalitarianism By Kathleen B. Jones, The Conversation What Hannah Arendt's work on Nazism can tell us about the current administration. READ MORE» Memo to the Media: How Not to Cover the President By Lynn Scherr, BillMoyers.com What J-School never taught you. READ MORE» So Much for the Russian Threat: Putin Slashes Defense Spending While Trump Plans Massive Buildup By Danielle Ryan, Salon Despite Western paranoia, Russia's defense budget is about one-tenth of America's—with huge cutbacks ahead. READ MORE» The People’s Defense: Why Senators Must Reject Gorsuch By Ilyse Hogue, Leah Greenberg, The American Prospect Activists have mounted an unprecedented grassroots campaign to reject Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. READ MORE» Apartheid in Israel—It's a Fact That Pretty Much the World Agrees on, Except the U.S. By Vijay Prashad, FRONTLINE A significant judgment from the UN has important ramifications for the international community.  READ MORE» What's in Gorsuch's Wallet, Trump's U.S. Supreme Court Pick By Kytja Weir, The Center for Public Integrity Financial disclosure reveals investment portfolio worth millions. READ MORE» Joy Reid on Ivanka's Move to the White House: 'The Trump Family Behave Like Third World Kleptocrats' By David Edwards, Raw Story She has no accountability to the American people. READ MORE» The Paleo Diet Fad Has Spun Totally Out of Control—and It's Giving Neanderthals a Bad Rap By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet Neanderthals didn't munch on paleo Filipino pili nuts with Himalayan sea salt. But our ancestors had a good understanding of what foods were available to them. READ MORE» The Odds That the Beer You Drink Is Actually 'Craft' Are Getting Smaller and Smaller Each Year By Rob Larson, Dollars and Sense Raising consciousness about capitalism’s predations, even in beer, could encourage a movement to socialize brewing. READ MORE» A White House Without Rules By Eliza Newlin Carney, The American Prospect The Trump administration’s most troubling conflicts involve the president’s closest advisers, employees the White House argues operate entirely outside the ethics laws. READ MORE» Why the NY Times Is Chiefly Responsible for the Mass Ignorance About the U.S. Budget By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research If sources give their readers huge numbers, without any context, how is the public supposed to understand the budget? READ MORE»