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Donald Trump Is Not Too Big to Fail

His victory illustrates the weakness of the Republican Party, not its strength. And despite his braggadocio, he’s vulnerable.

Gary Younge

Cities

Public Transportation Is a Necessity. Why Does New York Price It Like a Luxury?

It’s time for the city to subsidize MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers.

David R. Jones and Nancy Rankin
US Wars and Military Action

American Special Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries

Will Obama’s legacy as Commander-in-Chief continue under Trump?

Nick Turse
Gender and Sexuality

Asking for a Friend: How Can I Embrace Kinky Sex in a ‘Pussy-Grabbing’ Era?

Another reader wants to know: Should I dispute my distant relatives’ awful opinions?

Liza Featherstone
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Politics

How Donald Trump Will Make America White Again

His plan for fixing the legal immigration system is simple and disturbing: Bring back 1890.

Julianne Hing

Republicans Are Planning to Rush Through Jeff Sessions’s Confirmation Hearing

Despite his controversial record, Democrats will only get to call four witnesses during the course of a two-day hearing.

Joan Walsh

Why Workers Everywhere Should Be Scared by Kentucky’s Assault on Unions

Workers should be preparing to push back as the Republicans who control the White House and the Congress bring their anti-union agenda to Washington.

John Nichols

Special report

Istanbul’s Bloody New Year's Attack Struck at Its Cosmopolitan Heart

The city has seen its best features turned against itself: diversity and accessibility.
Anna Lekas Miller

Istanbul—As midnight swept across the globe, Istanbul was a city like any other. At the Reina nightclub on the west bank of the Bosphorus, patrons popped champagne corks, celebrating the end of an unusually tumultuous year by dancing the night away to the beats of DJ Abdullah Can Saraç.1 Just… Continue Reading >

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The trump administration

Trump Is Signaling a Trade War, but It's Not as Disastrous as You May Think

The Trump trade agenda is remarkably consistent—and will happen quickly. 

David Dayen

Trump’s Transition Team Is Stacked With Privatization Enthusiasts

If these officials get their way, America’s schools, roads, prisons, immigrant-detention centers, and critical social-insurance programs will soon fall into private hands.

David Dayen

The American Press Is Under Threat as Never Before

A supplicant media will be no match for the compulsive liar in the White House.

Eric Alterman

Culture

Harvey Cox's Radicalism

How the theologian and social critic reminds us of the radical possibilities and egalitarian hopes of a Christian left.

Elizabeth Bruenig

Birth of an Imperial Nation

A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.

Gabriel Winant

The Donald Glover Experiment

Who says the comedian, actor, rapper, TV writer can’t be everything all at once?

Marcus J. Moore
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Watch and Listen

Watch: Homeless in the Shadow of Santa Barbara’s Mansions

For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.

December 20, 2016

View: These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans

Following the path of cotton from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall.

December 12, 2016

Watch: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons

What we can learn from one of the great organizers in American history.

November 15, 2016

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