Alicia Garza: Setting Ourselves Up to Win and Win Big Alicia Garza: Setting Ourselves Up to Win and Win Big
That looks like creating the conditions for our resilience, and that means building infrastructure to make victory possible.
Jun 19, 2019 / Alicia Garza
Tiffany Cabán Just Might Pull This Off Tiffany Cabán Just Might Pull This Off
On June 25, Queens residents could elect one of the most progressive DAs in history.
Jun 19, 2019 / Ross Barkan
Washington’s Dr. Strangeloves Washington’s Dr. Strangeloves
Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea?
Jun 19, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
The Charter School Industry’s Dishonest Attack on Bernie Sanders The Charter School Industry’s Dishonest Attack on Bernie Sanders
Arguing that charter schools offer unique opportunities for poor African American children isn’t borne out by the facts.
Jun 19, 2019 / Adolph Reed Jr. and Cornel West
New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land
The credit goes to the activists who pushed it for more than three years.
Jun 19, 2019 / Raina Lipsitz
Mitch McConnell Calls Puerto Rican Statehood ‘Full-Bore Socialism’ Mitch McConnell Calls Puerto Rican Statehood ‘Full-Bore Socialism’
Yet his own Republican Party’s platform endorses “the right of the US citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state.”
Jun 18, 2019 / John Nichols
Finally, Presidential Candidates Are Talking About Poverty Finally, Presidential Candidates Are Talking About Poverty
An historic forum revealed consensus on the need for policies like raising the minimum wage and affordable childcare—and some big differences.
Jun 18, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann
The Democratic Differences on Foreign Policy That No One’s Talking About The Democratic Differences on Foreign Policy That No One’s Talking About
Champions of foreign-policy calamities shouldn’t get a pass at the debates.
Jun 18, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ugly Big Liars Ugly Big Liars
Enhanced advertisement, author unknown (photographed at the Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum subway station, NYC, May 2019.)
Jun 18, 2019 / OppArt / Reggie Seel
The Florida GOP’s Assault on Democracy The Florida GOP’s Assault on Democracy
Last fall, voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum giving the vote back to felons who complete their sentences. Now the legislature is trying to block it.
Jun 18, 2019 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky