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Progressives must do a better job speaking to people’s fears and presenting an affirmative case for our workable, effective policies on public safety.
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Drag Queens Were Targeted by the Proud Boys. Whom Did the Police Support?
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Scam Is Business as Usual
The legal and regulatory establishment has permitted a pattern of fraud and misrepresentation nested in the very business model of the crypto industry.
Chris LehmannThe '90s: Cradle of the present
House Music is Still the Sound of the Future
As raves took over the world, American electronic music kept growing in the places it began.
Hubert Adjei-KontohReading Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” in the Age of Ron DeSantis
More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say.
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The Mythology of George Balanchine
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Nell Zink’s California
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Alana Pockros
The Radical Internationalism of the Spanish Civil War
A new graphic history charts the exploits of those Americans serving in the war’s International Brigades.
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The Recount That Could Decide the Fate of Abortion Rights in Arizona
Arizona’s attorney general race, between a pro-choice Democrat and an anti-choice Republican, has come down to 510 votes.
John Nichols
Democrats Can Win Rural Seats if They Listen to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Washington’s new congresswoman talks working-class appeal and the failure of the party elite.
Nick Bowlin
Will Biden Shut Down Guantánamo?
After 7,627 nightmarish days of torture, cruel treatment, legal limbo, and injustice, it’s time for Biden to make good on his word: Shut it down.
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What the West Gets Wrong About the Rwandan Genocide
The mass killings haunt US foreign policy and distort how we understand ethnic violence.
Jina Moore
The Twitter User Taking on the Chinese Government
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Will This Ukrainian Town Be Repaired by Winter?
Borodyanka was destroyed by Russian missiles during the war. Now, elderly residents are trying to get their homes back before temperatures plunge below freezing.
Kris Parker and Vudi XhymshitiWatch and Listen
Listen: Pete Carroll’s Magic Shoes and Brittney Griner’s Freedom
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Listen: The Political Story of Charles Barkley
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Nation Voices
From the Magazine
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December 26, 2022/January 2, 2023
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Feature
What the West Gets Wrong About the Rwandan Genocide By Jina Moore
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Editorial
The 1990s Were Meant to Be the End of History—Instead They Birthed the Future By Lizzy Ratner, Regina Mahone, Ludwig Hurtado and Alana Pockros
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Books & the Arts
The Radical Internationalism of the Spanish Civil War By Bill Fletcher Jr.
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