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Governors Are Calling for Investments in Early Care and Education

Anna Lovejoy Center for American Progress
Child care is both hard to find and increasingly expensive for families. The average price of licensed child care for a U.S. family is nearly $11,000 per year, which is 33 percent of the median household income for single-parent families.

The Marginal Realists of Standing Together

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.

The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life

Peter Beinart New York Times
For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and Zionism....

Why Is America Letting the Oil Industry Destroy the Planet?

Thom Hartmann The Hartmann Report
The men who made the intentional decision to murder my father are long dead; the men and women who today are plotting to render much of our beautiful planet uninhabitable are very much with us…

The Greatest Baseball Films

Peter Dreier Portside
Most baseball films are pure entertainment. But baseball is often the setting for notable films that tell a bigger story about America’s social conditions. As the Major League Baseball season begins, here are 13 examples.

Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers

David Sirota, Helen Santoro, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean, Stockton, Katya Schwenk The Lever
Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.