Politics
The Case Against Cuomo—and Those Who Enabled Him
The devastating investigation into sexual harassment allegations against the governor confirms what many already knew: It’s time for him to go.
Alexis GrenellPolitics
The Establishment Beat Nina Turner. What Does It Mean?
It will be pegged as a victory against Sanders forces, or for dark money. It’s also about the years Turner spent out of a very gerrymandered and besieged district.
Joan WalshLaw
A Quick Reminder That Mandating Vaccines Is Totally Constitutional
No, the Bill of Rights does not block vaccine mandates. Neither does HIPAA. Just ask the three Republican judges who ruled that Indiana University can require students to be vaccinated.
Elie MystalPolitics
Andrew Cuomo Is the New Crown Prince of Denial
While any ordinary politician would slink off stage, New York’s governor will only go down fighting.
Ross Barkan
Big-Money Republican Donors Are Now Backing the GOP’s War on Fair Elections
Kevin McCarthy “jokes” about hitting Nancy Pelosi with a gavel. Jim Jordan admits that he talked to Donald Trump on January 6. And a new report on the money behind their Big Lie explains what they’re up to.
Joan Walsh
House Democrats Want to Know the Truth About the Bolivian Coup
The OAS’s false accusations led to the expulsion of Evo Morales. Now members of Congress want the State Department to investigate.
Aída Chávez
World
Lebanon’s “National Financial Suicide”
The success of the Banque du Liban, once seen as the country’s only functional institution, was all “smoke and mirrors.”
Angélique Mounier-Kuhn
Why Brazil’s First Trans State Legislator Built a Refuge for Black Queer and Trans People
Erica Malunguinho, an artist, educator, and politician, is fighting for an inclusive future.
Thomas Jean Lax
Why Tokyo Turned Against the Olympics
The city is the center of a great experiment at a dangerous new phase of the pandemic.
Chelsea Szendi SchiederNation Voices
Culture
Barry Jenkins’s American Saga
In The Underground Railroad, Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality.
Stephen Kearse
Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.
Michael Kazin
The Fiction of Meaningful Work
Kikuko Tsumura’s new novel examines what unites jobs good or bad: the stories we tell ourselves to cope with how much toil sucks in the first place.
Marie SolisWatch and Listen
Listen: Bernie’s Big Deal
John Nichols on the budget, plus Francine Prose on Ethel Rosenberg.
July 22, 2021
Listen: The Greatest: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon on Muhammad Ali
The directors of the new Ali documentary talk about bringing a larger-than-life figure back down to earth.
July 20, 2021
