Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow
Today’s conflicts over American slavery and Stalin’s Great Terror reveal similar controversies as well as an unknown Putin.
Aug 17, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
Can these Cities Block Texas’s Vile Anti-Immigrant Agenda? Can these Cities Block Texas’s Vile Anti-Immigrant Agenda?
A massive urban resistance is working to stop SB 4 from taking effect in the Lone Star State.
Aug 17, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner
Plus Bob Dreyfuss on Paul Manafort, and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and golf.
Aug 17, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Three Days in August Three Days in August
They remain in history as a heroic and inspired experience of civic awakening, the unexpected and joyous understanding that everyone’s personal choice has meaning and the futu...
Aug 17, 2017 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina
Cutting Off Payments to Palestinian Families Won’t Stop Terrorism Cutting Off Payments to Palestinian Families Won’t Stop Terrorism
It also might amount to collective punishment, which is illegal.
Aug 17, 2017 / Lara Friedman
Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump
The historian and author explains how racism is part of the Trump family DNA.
Aug 16, 2017 / Jon Wiener
Democrats Can Win Rural Voters by Taking on Big Agriculture Democrats Can Win Rural Voters by Taking on Big Agriculture
Identifying the corporate power that holds back farm communities could revive Democratic fortunes.
Aug 16, 2017 / David Dayen
Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East? Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East?
Our neo-imperial wars may be coming home to roost.
Aug 16, 2017 / Juan Cole
Fire the White Supremacists, Topple the Confederate Statues, Crack Down on the Violent Fascists Fire the White Supremacists, Topple the Confederate Statues, Crack Down on the Violent Fascists
This is about more than Trump—this is about what America must do. Now.
Aug 16, 2017 / John Nichols
Wanna Save the Planet? Follow the Haida Nation’s Example. Wanna Save the Planet? Follow the Haida Nation’s Example.
Indigenous peoples steward 80 percent of earth’s biological diversity, but need sovereignty to resist corporate plunder. The amazing triumph of the Haida shows how to get there.
Aug 16, 2017 / Mark Dowie