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The Bad Aftertaste of the NCAA Men’s Tournament

The North Carolina Tar Heels seemed to come apart physically, and the grown-ups just stood around and watched.

Dave Zirin

Labor Organizing

Congress Is Dragging Its Feet on Recognizing a Staffers’ Union

Congressional workers often struggle to get by, and they lack legal protections to organize and collectively bargain.

Aída Chávez
Puerto Rico

How Can Puerto Rico Escape the Debt Trap?

When it comes to Puerto Rico, the questions of debt haunt everyday life and shape the colonial reality of the island.

Ed Morales
US Wars and Military Action

What Will It Take to Shrink the Pentagon’s Budget?

We have now reached the point in our collective history where we face three certainties: death, taxes, and ever-soaring spending on weaponry and war.

William Astore
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War in Ukraine

A car sits in front of a burned apartment building and pile of rubble. A soldier stands in front of the car.

Russia's War in Ukraine Has Shattered the Old World Order

As a new Iron Curtain threatens to divide Europe, progressives must face the dangers of a resurgent militarism—and seize the opportunities to advance our priorities.

Michael T. Klare and The Nation

The Ongoing Russian Resistance to Putin’s War

Reports on the opposition to war inside Russia: What’s happened since February 27, 2022.

Finley Muratova

Putin’s Miscalculation Should Be a Lesson to the US

If there’s one thing to be learned from the present moment, it’s just how fickle such calculations can be and how easily the global situation can turn.

Michael T. Klare

Politics

Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Smearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Haunt Democrats

Republicans used her confirmation hearing to mainstream the notion that Democrats protect pedophiles—a sexual panic strategy aimed at the November midterms and beyond.

Joan Walsh
capitol hill

Congress Is Dragging Its Feet on Recognizing a Staffers’ Union

Congressional workers often struggle to get by, and they lack legal protections to organize and collectively bargain.

Aída Chávez
As Prices Soar, We Need Action—Not Spin

As Prices Soar, We Need Action—Not Spin

It’s ever more critical that Democrats enact policies that visibly support working people.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Culture

The Fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle

The Fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle

 

Jillian Steinhauer
The Many American Revolutions

The Many American Revolutions

Woody Holton’s Liberty is Sweet charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home. 

Eric Foner
Nadav Lapid’s Cinema of Shame

Nadav Lapid’s Cinema of Shame

His new film Ahed’s Knee is a shallow cri de coeur against the Israeli state. 

Kaleem Hawa

World

A tank on a road, with scattered soldiers walking alongside it.

How Kherson Was Occupied

What Novaya Gazeta’s reporter Elena Kostyuchenko saw with her own eyes.

Elena Kostyuchenko
How Can Puerto Rico Escape the Debt Trap?

How Can Puerto Rico Escape the Debt Trap?

When it comes to Puerto Rico, the questions of debt haunt everyday life and shape the colonial reality of the island.

Ed Morales

"F*ck Leftist Westsplaining!"

Listening to voices of the Central and East European left.

Linda Mannheim

Watch and Listen

Listen: Ginni Thomas, The Supreme Court, and Abolishing Student Debt

On this week’s podcast, Joan Walsh on January 6 and Astra Taylor on April 4.

March 31, 2022

Listen: From Auschwitz to the NBA

Author Dan Grunfeld joins the show to talk about his new memoir.

March 29, 2022

Listen: Senate Confirmation Hearings and the Missing Fight About the Constitution

Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath on the Supreme Court, plus P.E. Moskowitz on antidepressants.

March 24, 2022
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