US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at rally in New Hampshire, 2016.(Photo by Zach D Roberts / NurPhoto)
John Nichols says 2016 wasn’t all bad. With this year’s Progressive Honor Roll, we remember some of the people who fought the good fight, and sometimes even won; activists who pointed the way in the resistance to come.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Also: David Cole looks back on Obama’s achievements in civil rights, and his mixed record in civil liberties, over the last eight years.
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