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Take Action Now: End Gun Violence Take Action Now: End Gun Violence

Tell Congress we need background checks, support gun control in your state, and fight to end abortion bans.

Jan 28, 2020 / NationAction

In the Beginning, Run

In the Beginning, Run In the Beginning, Run

Ninety days in the dark   on your back   in    chains     and   you   don’t   know   where you’re   going.       I kept  picturing    the   grin   of   the  salesman    as  the sai…

Jan 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Harmony Holiday

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Letters From the February 10, 2020, Issue Letters From the February 10, 2020, Issue

Impeachment is an inside job… Lessons in free education… The great Picasso con… The GOP’s unhealthy agenda…

Jan 28, 2020 / Our Readers

The Trump Team’s Legal Defense Was a Tour de Force of Hypocrisy

The Trump Team’s Legal Defense Was a Tour de Force of Hypocrisy The Trump Team’s Legal Defense Was a Tour de Force of Hypocrisy

From Ken Starr to Alan Dershowitz, the president’s lawyers spewed illogical arguments that contradicted their own well-known positions.

Jan 28, 2020 / Elie Mystal

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Prince Harry’s Employment Prospects in Canada (Worst-Case Scenario) Prince Harry’s Employment Prospects in Canada (Worst-Case Scenario)

The prince has trouble finding work. Although without a pause he’s hunted, He hasn’t seen an ad that says, “Experienced ribbon cutter wanted.”…

Jan 28, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin

School Lunches of the Future

School Lunches of the Future School Lunches of the Future

ignore this…

Jan 28, 2020 / Jen Sorensen

Overpass

Overpass Overpass

Street signs.

Jan 28, 2020 / OppArt / Alessandra Mondolfi

Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate chamber on recess from impeachment trial.

Trump Acts Like a Mafia Don—and GOP Senators Yawn Trump Acts Like a Mafia Don—and GOP Senators Yawn

Day by day, tweet by presidential tweet, the country retreats from its democratic premise, yet the grandees of the GOP decline to intervene.

Jan 28, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation?

Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation? Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation?

A recent book argues that liberalism has an “unexpected debt” to evangelical religion.

Jan 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Keith Thomas

John Bolton

Trump Can’t Stop Bolton From Testifying. Only Cowardly Senate Republicans Can. Trump Can’t Stop Bolton From Testifying. Only Cowardly Senate Republicans Can.

And if they do that, Bolton must release his bombshell book immediately.

Jan 28, 2020 / Joan Walsh

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