The Best to You Each Morning The Best to You Each Morning
Palintology. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 20.
Dec 24, 2021 / Steve Brodner
Investing In Our Destruction Investing In Our Destruction
You can bank on it!
Dec 24, 2021 / OppArt / Anonymous and Peter Kuper
Why Christopher Hitchens Still Matters Why Christopher Hitchens Still Matters
A contrarian Christmas provocation.
Dec 24, 2021 / Ben Burgis
That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging
The film “deliberately maligned the upper class,” according to a report that didn’t like the portrayal of Mr. Potter as a bad guy.
Dec 24, 2021 / John Nichols
The Black Core of the Culture War The Black Core of the Culture War
Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke.
Dec 23, 2021 / Joshua Adams
What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6? What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6?
Amy Wilentz on the insurrection, plus Tom Lutz on The Kindness of Strangers.
Dec 23, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
West Virginians Give Manchin a Lump of Coal for Christmas West Virginians Give Manchin a Lump of Coal for Christmas
Manchin claims his constituents are happy with his abandonment of Build Back Better. Miners and other residents say that just isn’t so.
Dec 23, 2021 / John Nichols
When Whiny, Incompetent Nazis Lost Big When Whiny, Incompetent Nazis Lost Big
The civil trial of the white supremacists who planned the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 brought some measure of justice. But the threat of violence still ...
Dec 23, 2021 / Feature / Joan Walsh
Pramila Jayapal Is Not Having Any of Your Nonsense Pramila Jayapal Is Not Having Any of Your Nonsense
The progressive leader discusses her last call with Joe Manchin, her frustration with the idea that “the Squad” and Bernie Sanders were right and she was wrong, and her determinati...
Dec 22, 2021 / Joan Walsh