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Representative Liz Cheney

Liz Cheney Is Right on Impeachment, and Wrong on Everything Else Liz Cheney Is Right on Impeachment, and Wrong on Everything Else

Don’t make a hero of this neoconservative, warmongering, hate-amplifying apologist for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Feb 8, 2021 / John Nichols

Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules.

Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules. Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules.

Changes in IP have done far more than tax cuts to increase inequality—and US protection of IP could lead to a cold war with China.

Feb 8, 2021 / Dean Baker

House Impeachment Managers

The House’s Impeachment Trial Memorandum Is Damning The House’s Impeachment Trial Memorandum Is Damning

“Since the dawn of the Republic, no enemy—foreign or domestic—had ever obstructed Congress’s counting of the votes,” the brief says. “Until President Trump.”

Feb 8, 2021 / The Nation

Even in Death, Sheldon Adelson Will Keep Undermining Democracy

Even in Death, Sheldon Adelson Will Keep Undermining Democracy Even in Death, Sheldon Adelson Will Keep Undermining Democracy

Wherever the casino magnate went, corruption—be it moral, legal, political, or cultural—was never far behind.

Feb 8, 2021 / Eric Alterman

Death Penalty Abolition

President Biden Is Our Chance to End the Federal Death Penalty President Biden Is Our Chance to End the Federal Death Penalty

Trump’s execution spree laid bare some of the death penalty’s fundamental flaws.

Feb 8, 2021 / Sister Helen Prejean

First, Nurses Saved Our Lives—Now They’re Saving Our Health Care

First, Nurses Saved Our Lives—Now They’re Saving Our Health Care First, Nurses Saved Our Lives—Now They’re Saving Our Health Care

Throughout the pandemic, nurses have been at the forefront of the fight not only to treat the sick but also to fix our ailing medical system.

Feb 8, 2021 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe

Can the Novel Document the Present in Real Time?

Can the Novel Document the Present in Real Time? Can the Novel Document the Present in Real Time?

Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an experiment in novel writing that closely tracks and analyzes the news as it happens.

Feb 8, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rumaan Alam

Provenance

Provenance Provenance

There she was in that lavender dress, in that room, in that apartment, turning around to answer his fist pounding that door in the middle of that day that…

Feb 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Paul Tran

Pillowheads

Pillowheads Pillowheads

Legion of Horror. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of  February 1.

Feb 5, 2021 / Steve Brodner

A New Era of Hope

A New Era of Hope A New Era of Hope

The Biden-Harris administration is the beginning of the rebuilding of democracy.

Feb 5, 2021 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

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