Politics

Re-opening Continues Across Densely Populated New York And New Jersey Areas

A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition

Get a fresh start after a rotten year—help those who help others.

Dec 10, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A nurse wearing a surgical mask and face shield holds a vial of the Covid-19 vaccine

So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine? So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine?

And why do I still have to wear a mask?

Dec 10, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves

Joe Biden stands on stage with Kamala Harris, Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Alejandro Mayorkas, Avril Haines, John Kerry, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Personnel as Policy: What Biden’s Picks So Far Tell Us Personnel as Policy: What Biden’s Picks So Far Tell Us

For progressives, Biden’s nominees include the good, the bad—and the just plain ugly.

Dec 10, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage for The Nation

Mike Davis: We Need a Commission to Investigate Trump’s Covid Response

Mike Davis: We Need a Commission to Investigate Trump’s Covid Response Mike Davis: We Need a Commission to Investigate Trump’s Covid Response

Plus Amy Wilentz on pardons for the Trump kids.

Dec 10, 2020 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

I Know Rahm Emanuel, and He Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near the White House

I Know Rahm Emanuel, and He Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near the White House I Know Rahm Emanuel, and He Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near the White House

Appointing Rahm as secretary of transportation would  be a slap in the face not only to Chicago but to all union members who sent Biden to the White House.

Dec 10, 2020 / Stacy Davis Gates

Trump’s Last Gasp Is a Scheme to Disenfranchise 20,756,421 American Voters—and He’s Getting Help

Trump’s Last Gasp Is a Scheme to Disenfranchise 20,756,421 American Voters—and He’s Getting Help Trump’s Last Gasp Is a Scheme to Disenfranchise 20,756,421 American Voters—and He’s Getting Help

By embracing a Texas lawsuit to cancel the results from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, the president pushes the ultimate voter suppression.

Dec 9, 2020 / John Nichols

Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades

Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades

David Dinkins campaigned for mayor of New York in 1989 as a longtime member of Democratic Socialists of America who had worked for decades on progressive causes and served as New Y…

Dec 9, 2020 / John Nichols

Neera Tanden speaks on stage at the Milken Conference

Progressives Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Fighting Biden’s Nominees Progressives Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Fighting Biden’s Nominees

The incoming administration is owed no deference when it picks corporate insiders.

Dec 9, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Raging Pandemic, Anemic Response

Raging Pandemic, Anemic Response Raging Pandemic, Anemic Response

Americans suffer while the GOP dithers.

Dec 9, 2020 / OppArt / Sue Coe

Gov. Kemp And Surgeon General Jerome Adams Announce Expanded Testing In Atlanta

The Georgia GOP’s Fight Against Voter Registration The Georgia GOP’s Fight Against Voter Registration

Georgia’s Republican leadership has a history of using investigations into election integrity to obstruct the opposition and suppress the vote.

Dec 9, 2020 / Timothy Pratt

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