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Trump and the Whistle-Blower He Hates

US whistle-blower law was explicitly designed to protect witnesses against mob boss retaliation.

Tom Devine and Mark Hertsgaard

Politics

Satellite Locations Are Not Enough to Make the Iowa Caucuses Inclusive and Fair

The caucuses are better at portraying the idea of democracy than bringing people into democracy.

Emily Berch
Health and Disease

We’re on the Verge of a Global Pandemic—but Trump Is Cutting Public Health Services

His administration is fighting to kill Obamacare, blocking immigrant access to government aid, and allowing states to cut Medicaid funding.

Sasha Abramsky
Immigration Policy

Exclusive: Customs and Border Protection Gains an Extra Layer of Secrecy

By gaining a “security agency” designation, the border police can further shield themselves from public view.

Ken Klippenstein
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Dateline: Iowa

C’mon, Iowa, This Is Just Ridiculous

If the Iowa caucuses are any indication of what the rest of the election cycle might be like, 2020 is going to be a tough year.

John Nichols

Elizabeth Warren Has a Movement. You Just Don’t See It Yet.

Nobody knows who won the Iowa caucuses—but Warren’s support was powered by the feminist spirit of 2018.

Joan Walsh

How to Figure Out Who ‘Won’ the Iowa Caucuses

Here’s a hint: It could be complicated, and it could take a while. We go down the Iowa caucus rabbit hole so you don’t have to.

John Nichols

Politics

Trump and Bolton Are Still on the Same Team

Despite the turmoil of impeachment, the neocons are back in the driver’s seat in Washington.

Jeet Heer

Why American Socialism Failed—and How It Could Prevail Today

Today’s socialists march into the 2020s without the daunting roadblocks of a century ago.

Ross Barkan

Trump’s War on the Poor Includes Our Children

One in five American children live in poverty, even as pundits tout employment highs.

Rajan Menon

Reproductive rights

Politics

The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists

Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.

Alex DiBranco

Super Bowl

Sports

This Year’s Super Bowl Was Blatantly Propagandistic

Kansas City won the big game, but that was a sideshow compared to the political bombast on display.

Dave Zirin

From the Magazine

World

‘Parasite’ Has Opened American Eyes to South Korea’s Reality

Now we need a film to cut through US myths about the North.

Tim Shorrock

What’s New About Trump’s Mideast ‘Peace’ Plan? Only the Blunt Crudity of Its Racism.

From the administration’s perspective, Palestinian suffering doesn’t count because Palestinians themselves don’t count. 

Saree Makdisi

What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?

A recent ruling opens the door to new types of protected status.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Culture

Is Impeachment Only About Getting a Conviction?

A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is not only a tool to constrain executive abuse of power, but also a way to publicize dissent on matters of policy and principle.

Stephanie McCurry

John Berger’s Life Between Art and Politics

Caught between town and country, love and criticism, the English writer’s work tracks the political evolution of his generation.

Bruce Robbins

Kaytranada Captures an Entire Party’s Worth of Sound on ‘Bubba’

The electronic producer’s new album feels like the full flowering of a major talent.

Bijan Stephen

Watch and Listen

View: Blocked Parking Spots, Broken Sidewalks, and Boulders: How Common Spaces Fail People With Disabilities

The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed to ensure that we all had access to public spaces, but the implementation has not always lived up to the law.

January 31, 2020

Listen: Republicans Who Are Defending Trump Now Are Setting Themselves Up to Lose the Senate in November

Joan Walsh on impeachment politics, Robert Lipsyte on the Superbowl, and Morley Musick on the Border Patrol.

January 30, 2020
January 29, 2020

interviews

Migrant Voices

‘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 Washington

‘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

columnists

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