Don’t Ever Say Michelle Obama Didn’t Warn You About Trump
“If a candidate traffics in prejudice,” she says, “that is the kind of president they will be.”
John NicholsElection 2016
Donald Trump Is a Worse Crook Than Bernie Madoff
Madoff only scammed his rich clients. Trump could scam us all.
Nomi PrinsCampaigns and Elections
Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November
New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
Ari BermanElection 2016
Colin Kaepernick Has a Right to Hate Both Candidates
He’s been upsetting conservatives for weeks—and now he is upsetting liberals, too.
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A Growing Grassroots Movement in Mexico Is Resisting the US-Backed Drug War
Citizens are protesting mass disappearances, searching mass graves, and demanding an end to impunity.
Dawn Paley
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The 14-Minute ‘60 Minutes’ Infomercial for Cold War
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Katha Pollitt: It’s Time to Get Active for Hillary
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The Most Peaceful Protest
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Everything Is Interesting
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What if the US Really Did Deport 11 Million People?
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Election 2016
Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?
As Trump himself might say, there’s something going on.
Leslie Savan
Post-Bernie Blaze Fires Up His Democratic-Socialist Delegates
Although Bernie’s run stopped short of the nomination, his delegates are continuing to push for his politics across the country.
Elizabeth Henderson
Donald Trump’s Wild Portrayal of Crime Is Simply Not True
Do not panic. Even in a bad year, today’s crime rates remain at historic lows.
John PfaffNation Voices
Donald Trump
In the First Debate, Trump Failed to Achieve the Reagan Effect
He seemed to shrink throughout the evening, growing more defensive and ill-tempered, snorting and grimacing.
Robert L. BorosageAmerica Has Gotten So Absurd That We Are Seriously Considering Electing a Walking Ponzi Scheme as President
Welcome to the United States, where war, nukes, and birther conspiracy theories reign supreme.
Tom EngelhardtHave You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?
As Trump himself might say, there’s something going on.
Leslie SavanBooks & the Arts
Fortress America
How 20th-century liberals helped create our age of mass incarceration.
James Forman Jr.
A Part of Denise Riley’s Song
The shadow of ballad meter haunts Riley’s poems, which can never not be a sign of vitality.
Ange Mlinko
Black Lives Matter
I’m Trying to Find Hope, but This Campaign Isn’t Helping
In the wake of police killing Terrence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott, the first presidential debate offered nothing to suggest black lives truly matter.
Reniqua AllenBlack Charlotte Is Frustrated—and That’s by Design
The Queen City has boomed in recent years. But its growth and prosperity has only hardened a racial divide established decades ago.
Greg LacourBlack as We Wanna Be
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
Matthew McKnightWatch and Listen
Listen: Katha Pollitt: It’s Time to Get Active for Hillary
Plus, Kai Wright on Trump’s supporters and D.D. Guttenplan on the British left.
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Watch: Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F**king Mutt’
A secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city's young people of color in the NYPD's crosshairs.
October 8, 2012
Watch: How to Protest Without Offending Anyone
Alternatives for kneeling during the National Anthem, blocking traffic, and more.
September 23, 2016
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