Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom
Charting the ironies of freedom won and lost during and after the Civil War, the American historian has also helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.
Michael KazinUnited Kingdom
It’s a Race Against Time for Labour in Next Week’s Momentous UK Elections
The choice couldn’t be more stark: between the nativist, hard-Brexit Tories and the most radical-left Labour platform the nation has seen in decades.
Rachel ShabiHousing and Homelessness
Trump Just Dynamited the Food Stamp Program
This man’s cruelty is boundless. He also just appointed as his homelessness czar a man who tried to get cities to ban charities from feeding the homeless.
Sasha AbramskyWorld
Why Taiwan Won’t Welcome China’s Dissidents
Hong Kong protesters and Chinese political dissidents often look to democratic Taiwan as a place for shelter—but its government has little interest in providing it.
Nick AspinwallLatest from The Nation
December 6, 2019 Pensions
Don’t Mess With French Pensions
Emmanuel Macron’s latest bugbear: a million angry French citizens striking against his proposed pension reforms.
Colin Kinniburgh
December 6, 2019
Making Our Own Bed
December 6, 2019 Books and Ideas
Nathan J. Robinson Wants You to Be a Socialist
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The Reasons Republicans Are Still Backing Trump
December 5, 2019 Executive Branch
Speaker Pelosi Seeks Articles of Impeachment
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The Republicans’ Star Impeachment Scholar Is a Shameless Hack
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Who Is Making US Foreign Policy?
Politics
How I Won a Florida Swing Seat as a Proud Abortion-Rights Supporter
Consultants advised me not to talk about my work for Planned Parenthood. But I didn’t want to win an election if I could not be myself, and supporting reproductive freedom is foundational to who I am.
Anna Eskamani
Trump’s Cover-Up Is Fully and Necessarily Impeachable
Constitutional scholars tell the House Judiciary Committee that obstructing the impeachment inquiry is totally impeachable.
John Nichols
It’s a Race Against Time for Labour in Next Week’s Momentous UK Elections
The choice couldn’t be more stark: between the nativist, hard-Brexit Tories and the most radical-left Labour platform the nation has seen in decades.
Rachel Shabiimpeachment politics
The Republicans’ Star Impeachment Scholar Is a Shameless Hack
Jonathan Turley’s testimony was so inconsistent, it contradicted his own previous statements on impeachment.
Elie MystalThe GOP Grievance Machine’s Desperate Attempt to Upstage the Case for Impeachment
The faux outrage was triggered when an impeachment witness used the name of the president’s teenage son to make a point. It didn’t work.
Joan WalshSpeaker Pelosi Seeks Articles of Impeachment
Reasserting Congress as a check and balance on the presidency, she says, “If we allow a president to be above the law, we do so surely at the peril of our republic.”
John NicholsNation Voices
Culture
Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca
She wants to lead a youth movement, but her first book says more about a media ecosystem that helped produce her than radical action.
Haley Mlotek
Is the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Anything but Fan Service?
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is caught between grappling with the politics of the moment and the politics of television success.
Sarah Jones
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Reproductive Rights
Anti-Abortion Extremism Goes Full Psycho
An Ohio House bill would require doctors to perform a procedure that is medically impossible—or face murder charges. Other bills just as nutty are being enacted across the country.
Sasha AbramskyThe New politics of abortion
Police and Law Enforcement
Meet the Prosecutors Resisting America’s Frightening New Abortion Bans
A group of progressive attorneys is refusing to enforce new abortion laws. But in a legal landscape so hostile to choice, is deliberate inaction enough?
Cynthia GreenleeWorld
Why Taiwan Won’t Welcome China’s Dissidents
Hong Kong protesters and Chinese political dissidents often look to democratic Taiwan as a place for shelter—but its government has little interest in providing it.
Nick Aspinwall
With American Help, Lebanon Once Again Nears the Abyss
Lebanon needs change. The people demand it and even some of the leaders know it. But US involvement threatens that possibility.
Charles Glass
Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.
Ben Ehrenreichspecial issue: the new politics of abortion
What Does Reproductive Justice Activism Look Like As Clinics Close?
As abortion access in Ohio erodes, reproductive justice groups are bringing new activists to the fight.
Dani McClainThe Pro-Choice Movement Has Won the Culture War
Abortion has never been less taboo than it is today.
Moira DoneganHow Abortion Funds Showed America That ‘Roe’ Is Not Enough
The movement for abortion access—not just rights—has arrived, and it’s winning fights across the country.
Amy LittlefieldWatch and Listen
Listen: Talking to Legendary Olympic Sprinter and Activist Wyomia Tyus
The legendary Wyomia Tyus joins the show to talk about her book, Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story.
November 19, 2019
Listen: Bernie Sanders Is Changing Progressive Politics
In an exclusive interview, the senator talks about how the movement he helped foster is now so much bigger than just him.
November 19, 2019
View: More Than a Wall: Photos of 30 Years of Life Along the US-Mexico Border
Successive US administrations have sought to turn the borderlands into a land of death—but these photos prove it is very much a land of the living.
September 12, 2019
Migrant Voices
‘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 WashingtonThe borders of our world cut not only across international boundaries, they also increasingly stretch deeply into the interior of nations—into our homes, cities, communities, courts, and everyday interactions. Citizenship status, visa status, vulnerability to deportation—these are just a few of the dividing lines increasingly separating our country into different… Continue Reading >
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