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If We Don’t Reform the Supreme Court, Nothing Else Will Matter

The court has been captured by conservatives for at least a generation, but there are ways to restore the balance.

Elie Mystal

Criminal Justice

Delhi Is On Fire, and My Kashmiri Parents Are in Prison

India’s government is willing to use any means to crush dissent.

Ahmed bin Qasim
Budgets

Trump Is Banking on Work Requirements to Cut Spending on Medicaid and Food Stamps

He’s admitting that work requirements will cut recipients off from their benefits—and reduce the deficit he himself created.

Bryce Covert
Philosophy

Reading Richard Rorty in Tehran

What the American philosopher’s visit to Tehran in 2004 can teach us about Iranian society—and our own.

Samuel Thrope
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Election 2020

Bloomberg Forced Me From My Teaching Job After He Learned I’d Been a Sex Worker

Elizabeth Warren’s devastating confrontation with the former mayor over allegations of sexual harassment made “billionaire” the dirty word—and made me feel respected.

Melissa Petro

These Are the 7 Most Important Races for Progressives

Here are the best opportunities for the left to seize seats from establishment Democrats.

Luke Kastel

Bernie Sanders Took Swings From All His Opponents Last Night—and Stayed Standing

Sanders won the debate, and not only because he didn’t lose.

Joan Walsh

Politics

Pete Buttigieg Is America’s Emmanuel Macron

Just like France’s leader, the upstart mayor promises business as usual in a calmer environment.

Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Post Offices Are the Lifeblood of Rural America—Yet Bloomberg Dismisses Them as ‘Antiquated’

The billionaire’s glib Obama-era speeches and interviews regarding rural issues are a political liability.

John Nichols

Democratic Candidates Can Win by Getting Values Right

What Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 campaign can teach 2020 candidates.

Simon Greer and Richard D. Kahlenberg

World

Hong Kong Is Still Waiting for Its Feminist Uprising

Women and girls in the ongoing protest movement are up against a deeply unequal society.

Jessie Lau

Germany Struggles to Respond to Racist Mass Murder

Is it any wonder, when radical right ideas are no longer confined to the margins, but have become normalized?

Jordan Stancil

Protecting the Truth About the Coronavirus in China

Tens of thousands of us are working to save the articles and accounts of COVID-19 before Chinese censors can delete them forever.

Shen Lu

media

Politics

Why MSNBC Is Freaking Out Over Bernie Sanders

Beholden to Never Trump partisans, the network can’t stand the Democratic Party’s shift to the left.

Jeet Heer

Culture

WWII’s Refugee Academics and the Myth of a Welcoming American Academy

Laurel Leff’s Well Worth Saving looks at the lives of Jewish professors who sought asylum in the United States and were denied entry.

Hannah Stamler

Traitor, Scourge, Prophet: Larry Kramer’s Acerbic Alternate History

His two-volume novel, The American People, is a nearly 1,700-page phantasmagoria that reimagines the nation’s history as a sordid queer saga, climaxing with the AIDS crisis.

Jeremy Lybarger

The Chicago Police Department’s History of Torture

Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD.

Edward Burmila

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Watch and Listen

Listen: Former NBA Star David West on Political Journey and Bernie Support

Former NBA all-star and champion David West joins the show to talk about the formation of his politics and his support for Bernie Sanders. 

February 18, 2020

Listen: Elizabeth Warren: Unity Candidate?

Joan Walsh on Warren, Bob Borosage on Bernie, and John Sayles on Yellow Earth.

February 20, 2020
February 5, 2020

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