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Contributors

THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES • There’s no incrementalism in this one.

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE • Trump knows he can’t win without trashing the Constitution. And he may just get away with it.

BUILDING A MOVEMENT • Carroll Fife helped homeless moms take over an empty Oakland house. Now she’s trying to get inside a system she doesn’t trust.

EXILE ON MAINE STREET • If Susan Collins is forced into retirement in November, you can thank Maine’s oldest voters.

“OUR COUNTRY IS FULL” • America’s asylum system was already broken. Then Donald Trump turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK • The pandemic made traditional campaigning a thing of the past. And that may be for the best.

RAISING ARIZONA • Latinx activists are closer than ever to flipping the state—if Democrats don’t take them for granted.

COP OUT • How Black Oaklanders finally expelled the school police

BREAK IT UP • The cycle of punitive justice begins in school. But a transformative movement is changing that, one hallway fight at a time.

COLOR BY NUMBERS • GreatSchools has become the go-to source for information on local schools. Yet its ratings could be making neighborhood segregation worse.

WRONG DIVISION

SACRIFICE PLAY • How the Negro Leagues were killed

EYEWITNESS • After a photographer lost a retina to “less lethal” munitions during a protest, he traveled the country to find fellow members of the Shot in the Eye Club.

BASKET OF DISPOSABLES • Why is the Trump administration pushing restaurants to use more plastic?

TO SERVE AMERICA • We can tackle hunger and joblessness at the same time.