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The Politics of Joy

Just because last weekend’s surge of solidarity and celebration can’t last doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.

D.D. Guttenplan

Election 2020

2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

Democrats’ failure to address the issue of economic precarity undermines their claim to be the party of the working class.

Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback
Politics

Trump’s Final Dereliction of Duty

In the twilight of his presidency, Donald Trump has retreated into fantasy, leaving Biden with a big mess.

Jeet Heer
Democrats

Joe Biden’s Presidency Depends on Georgia

A pair of runoff elections in the state could end Mitch McConnell’s destructive tenure as Senate majority leader.

John Nichols and Joan Walsh
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Politics

The Trump-Shaped Stain on American Life

From the courts to the border to the meaning of truth, damage has been done.

Katha Pollitt

Donald Trump Has Never Understood the Military—and He’s Not Going to Be Able to Co-opt It for a Coup

He can consolidate power in the Pentagon, but the military men and women I know aren’t going to subvert democracy.

Andrew McCormick

Donald Trump’s Deadly Last Stand

The Republican delay in acknowledging defeat and facilitating the transition will be literally fatal to thousands of Americans.

Gregg Gonsalves

World

Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation

Immigrant rights advocates allege that ICE detainees are being coerced, sometimes violently, into signing their own removal papers and returned to a country that is arresting and beating them.

John Washington

The Death of Working-Class Paris

As the rich transform France’s capital into a piggy bank and playground, the future of the city hangs in the balance.

Cole Stangler

The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War

Since the 2003 invasion, doctors in Fallujah have been reporting a sharp rise in birth defects among the city’s children—and to this day, no one knows why.

Laura Gottesdiener

Culture

Celia Paul Sits for Her Own Portrait

The painter’s memoir Self-Portrait is a revelation. 
 

Sophie Haigney

The Limits of the Viral Book Review

Why are literary critics fixating on one quality nowadays?

Larissa Pham

Is There a Cure for Burnout?

Anne Helen Petersen’s Can't Even grapples with the miseries of millennial work.

Jeremy Gordon

Watch and Listen

Listen: Mike Davis: Biden’s Big Mistake

Plus Jody Armour on how Black Lives Matter won at the polls.

November 12, 2020

View: Behind the Doors of New York’s Public Housing

Portraits of the activists, organizers, artists, and more who call the Lower East Side’s public housing home.

November 10, 2020

View: How Many Cameras Does One Protest Need?

Livestreamers and citizen journalists are providing constant, steady footage of the protests for Black Lives. Is that a good thing?

November 3, 2020
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