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Kennedy’s campaign to oust a progressive senator is an establishment takeover.
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A former political candidate reflects on how the opposition research sausage gets made.
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12 States Where Democrats Could Flip the Senate
This November, Republicans are in danger of losing seats across the land—especially in Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia.
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Impeachment Has Already Succeeded
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Why I Support Bernie Sanders for President
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The Republicans Have Revealed Their Impeachment Strategy—Lying
As the trial enters its second day, can anyone stop Trump’s Senate enablers from dissembling their way to an acquittal?
Elie Mystal
McConnell Rules? Not So Much.
On day one of the impeachment trial, the Senate majority leader caved on several proposed rules, while Schumer’s pushback gave House impeachment managers many extra hours to make their case against Trump.
Joan Walsh
Joe Kennedy III Is an Insider, Not an Insurgent
Kennedy’s campaign to oust a progressive senator is an establishment takeover.
Maia Hibbettelection 2020
Voter, Beware: Oppo Dump Season Is Upon Us
A former political candidate reflects on how the opposition research sausage gets made.
Ross BarkanThe Iowa Caucuses Have Long Turned Out the ‘Same Old White Crew.’ 2020 Could Be Different.
After the shock of 2016, grassroots organizers set out to make the Iowa caucuses more representative of the changing state. Soon we’ll find out if they succeeded.
Rebecca ZweigIn 2020, Double Standards Are Still Dogging Elizabeth Warren—and All the Women Candidates
A record number of women ran for president in this primary election. But that doesn’t mean sexism has been vanquished.
Joan WalshNation Voices
World
Hunger and Hope in Haiti
Amy Wilentz on Haiti, Mia Birdsong on poverty, and Kate Aronoff and Michael Kazin on socialism.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
The US Sanctions on Iran Are Causing a Major Humanitarian Crisis
There has been a catastrophic drop in living standards, and the deterioration in public health warrants immediate action by the international community.
Ahmad Jalalpour
The Long-Term Consequences of Trump’s Middle East Blundering
His obsession with Iran and the assassination of Suleimani have strengthened Iran’s power in Iraq and damaged the anti-ISIS coalition.
Mohamad BazziMigrant voices
‘It’s Like Living in Solitary Confinement, but Out in the World’
Born in Soviet Ukraine and denied status in Canada and the United States, Karina describes the plight of statelessness—living without being recognized by any country at all.
John Washington‘I Used to Wonder What My Karma Was That I Had to End Up in a Place Like This’
A Nepali TPS holder and domestic worker describes what it’s like to live in the US without papers and to fight for workers’ rights.
John Washington‘We Are So Much More Than Victims’
Batool was just a teenager when the Syrian civil war broke out. After living through the worst of the fighting and years in exile, she’s making a new life in Berkeley.
John Washingtonhistory
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide
Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
Greg GrandinBook review
Corporations
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?
In Goliath, Matt Stoller argues that US history has been defined by a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but to understand inequality today requires engaging with questions of class and labor that he and other anti-monopolists tend to ignore.
Gabriel WinantCulture
Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage
American Spy examines the intersections between spycraft and living in America as a black person.
Jennifer Wilson
Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad
We talked to the philosopher about her recent book The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and her thoughts on contemporary global politics.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
A Short History of Minimalism
Donald Judd, Richard Wollheim, and the origins of what we now describe as minimalist.
Kyle ChaykaWatch and Listen
Listen: Poverty Can Be Solved. Just Trust Poor People.
Listen to the second episode in the More Than Enough podcast.
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Los Angeles Chargers running back Justin Jackson joins the show to talk politics, Bernie Sanders, and more.
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View: PHOTOS: A Year After the Caravans, Has Trump Won?
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The Only Thing Stopping Us From Taxing the Rich Is Political Will
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Lauren Michele Jackson Wants to Change How We Talk About Appropriation
Her debut essay collection White Negroes presents a more artful and nuanced way to examine the frictions of cultures colliding.
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