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Executing Lisa Montgomery Would Be One of Trump’s Final Cruelties

For the first time in 67 years, the federal government is set to execute a woman.

Victoria Law

Election 2020

Don’t Expect Jones Day to Stop Enabling Donald Trump

The law firm has been the president’s biggest legal booster—and beneficiary—from the start. It’s not going to stop now.

Elie Mystal
Election 2020

Even a Clownish Coup Can Still Hurt Democracy

As the president’s campaign maintains its futile effort to steal the election, we all bear the cost.

Jeet Heer
Executive Branch

Should Biden Hire Rahm Emanuel? Chicago Says, ‘Never! Never! Never!’

The scandal-plagued neoliberal mayor’s track record is disqualifying, say the officials who know him best.

John Nichols
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Politics

American Democracy Was Never Supposed to Work

Without a practical plan for revising the Constitution, Democrats will be condemned to play by rigged rules.

Richard Kreitner

How to Understand Democrats’ Disappointing Losses in State Legislatures

Trump had coattails while losing. Biden had almost none while winning. Plus, mediocre national messaging cost Democrats the chance to flip chambers. But they can’t—and won’t—give up.

Joan Walsh

Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business

It will strengthen labor and help fight the increasing concentration of corporate power.

Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg

World

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

Biden Signals Flexibility on North Korea, but Peace Groups Are Wary

Koreans fear a return to Obama’s failed “strategic patience” policy.

Tim Shorrock

Culture

Celia Paul Sits for Her Own Portrait

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

Sophie Haigney

Is There a Cure for Burnout?

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

Jeremy Gordon

The Horrors of Charlie Kaufman

His latest existential love story, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, reveals the limits of his work.

Erin Schwartz

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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