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On the impact of the self-driving technology on people who drive for a living.

Supporters of a higher minimum wage, however, remain undeterred. "Wal-Mart's business model is pretty simple," said Amy Traub, an associate director of policy and research at equality advocacy group Demos, at a recent debate hosted by Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2) in New York.

To better understand capital punishment in America—how it works, who it affects, and the myths that continue to surround it—we’ve compiled 10 of the best long form articles on the subject from Fusion and around the web.

“Racism Is Keeping the Death Penalty Alive,” by Jason McDaniel and Sean McElwee, Fusion

With the Trump effect, we have now entered into a new era of exacerbated racial discrimination against Latino, Asian and black immigrant communities in the United States. 

Sean McElwee, a policy analyst for Demos and frequent contributor to Salon, published a statistical analysis last week, based on data collected by the American National Election Studies that clearly demonstrates that racism, rather th

I think a state-level proposal of guaranteeing and enforcing that people who are imprisoned are paid at least the minimum wage deserves real scrutiny

In cities across our nation, Americans rose up around the issue that brought our founding fathers to their feet and began a revolution: taxes.

Understanding the racial wealth gap

Today, with health coverage for maternity care threatened, child care costs outstripping the price of college tuition, and  nearly a quarter of new mothers forced to return to work two weeks or less after giving birth, we are making it extraordinarily difficult for anyone but the ve