Resolution for 2016: Let’s Have Lots More Presidential Debates Resolution for 2016: Let’s Have Lots More Presidential Debates
Robert Reich is petitioning the DNC to open up the process. Let’s make this the start of a fight for more debates in the primary season and this fall.
Jan 1, 2016 / John Nichols
December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends
“There has probably been no year which the civilized world will have hereafter so much reason to remember.”
Dec 31, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
And the Most Disturbing Presidential Candidate of 2015 Award Goes to… And the Most Disturbing Presidential Candidate of 2015 Award Goes to…
Not, somehow, Donald Trump.
Dec 30, 2015 / John Nichols
Happy New Year. You’re Deported. Happy New Year. You’re Deported.
The Obama administration targets the renewed flow of Central American refugees with new raids—and Donald Trump takes the credit.
Dec 30, 2015 / Julianne Hing
The Year When Students of Color Put Campuses on Notice The Year When Students of Color Put Campuses on Notice
Administrators’ vague rhetoric about diversity and inclusion won’t end a growing movement to make universities reimagine themselves.
Dec 30, 2015 / Jailyn Gladney
December 30, 1936: The United Auto Workers Sit Down on the Job in Flint, Michigan December 30, 1936: The United Auto Workers Sit Down on the Job in Flint, Michigan
“Every night at eight the strikers’ band of three guitars, a violin, a mouth organ, and a squeeze box broadcast over a loud-speaker for the strikers and the women and c...
Dec 30, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Why Video Evidence Wasn’t Enough to Get Justice for Tamir Rice Why Video Evidence Wasn’t Enough to Get Justice for Tamir Rice
The video didn’t matter to the prosecutor because killing black people is not a crime.
Dec 29, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith
How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death? How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death?
The Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice will face no state criminal charges.
Dec 29, 2015 / Dani McClain
Who’s Fighting the Mental-Health Crisis on Campus? Unions. Who’s Fighting the Mental-Health Crisis on Campus? Unions.
Grant Mao wanted to get back on track. Yale wanted to get rid of him.
Dec 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen
December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born
“What [The Recognitions] lacks, like all claustrophobic works of art, is imagination.”
Dec 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner