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Donald Trump Is Putting Every Journalist in Every Country at Risk Donald Trump Is Putting Every Journalist in Every Country at Risk

The president’s casual response to the Khashoggi killing is horrifying.

Oct 18, 2018 / John Nichols

The Indelible Pain of the Kavanaugh Hearings

The Indelible Pain of the Kavanaugh Hearings The Indelible Pain of the Kavanaugh Hearings

As I consider my own trauma, I wonder how my students will remember theirs.

Oct 18, 2018 / Belle Chesler

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That Trump Administration Claim That Poverty Is Low? Outright Flimflam. That Trump Administration Claim That Poverty Is Low? Outright Flimflam.

It’s based on deeply flawed methodology, resulting from a study whose conclusions are arbitrary. In fact, poverty is seriously understated.

Oct 18, 2018 / Jeff Madrick

Can Progressive Momentum Transform the Democratic Party?

Can Progressive Momentum Transform the Democratic Party? Can Progressive Momentum Transform the Democratic Party?

Jeff Cohen, plus Sasha Abramsky on Arizona and Joan Walsh on Georgia.

Oct 18, 2018 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

A History of Salvage

A History of Salvage A History of Salvage

The Met’s “History Refused to Die” exhibition rewrites the art history of the American South through a group of self-taught practitioners.

Oct 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

A Taxing Day at the Polls

A Taxing Day at the Polls A Taxing Day at the Polls

ignore this…

Oct 18, 2018 / Jen Sorensen

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Letters From the November 12, 2018, Issue Letters From the November 12, 2018, Issue

Holding banks to account… A radical cure… Time for Amazonian outrage…    

Oct 18, 2018 / Our Readers

The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837)

The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837) The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837)

Christ’s editor becomes Christ’s martyr: band the newspaper columns black for Elijah P. Lovejoy, who fired back. They threw his first three presses into the river. They came with g…

Oct 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range

Trump Kim hand on back

Donald ❤ Kim Donald ❤ Kim

Trump now says he’s in love with Kim Jong-un. In that seduction, Kim Jong-un was speedy. Some ego-stroking letters did the trick. It’s really simple when a man’s that needy.

Oct 18, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Puzzle No. 3480

Puzzle No. 3480 Puzzle No. 3480

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle.  1 Ambitious to be like π (like 3.14) (12)  9 They say I have my dinner get very cold (3,2) 10 Party in Georgia: a Wagnerian…

Oct 18, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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