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Margaret Sullivan on How Trump Trounced the Media

Margaret Sullivan on How Trump Trounced the Media Margaret Sullivan on How Trump Trounced the Media

An interview.

Dec 2, 2016 / John Nichols

Kaepernick Reid Anthem Kneel

2016 in Sports: Joy and Resistance While the World Burned 2016 in Sports: Joy and Resistance While the World Burned

The sports world was an oasis during an otherwise terrible year. 

Dec 1, 2016 / Dave Zirin

Donald Trump in Wilkes Barre

We Need to Kill the Electoral College We Need to Kill the Electoral College

It’s a foul remnant of 18th-century oligarchs and slaveholders, designed to thwart the will of the people.

Dec 1, 2016 / John Nichols

Donald Trump Debate

Trump Thinks the Law Is for Wusses Trump Thinks the Law Is for Wusses

But guess who’s really getting conned.

Dec 1, 2016 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue

Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited…
 Bentham’s revenge…

Dec 1, 2016 / Our Readers and Samuel Moyn

Sanctuary City Immigration

Lessons for the Trump Era From the Days Following 9/11 Lessons for the Trump Era From the Days Following 9/11

We’ve been here before, so let’s take stock of what we did right—and what we got wrong.

Dec 1, 2016 / Sayu Bhojwani

Traffic in Berkeley

Here’s How States and Cities Can Fight Climate Change and Inequality in the Trump Era Here’s How States and Cities Can Fight Climate Change and Inequality in the Trump Era

Let’s make polluters pay for carbon reduction and invest the revenue in disadvantaged communities.

Dec 1, 2016 / Heather McGhee and Robert B. Reich

Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment

Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment

“We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams,” a Nation writer said in 1992.

Nov 30, 2016 / Richard Kreitner

Fidel Castro

How Cubans See Fidel Castro and His Revolution Is Tied to How They See Themselves How Cubans See Fidel Castro and His Revolution Is Tied to How They See Themselves

It’s no surprise many beam with pride when they talk about the “triumphs of the revolution.”

Nov 30, 2016 / Andrés S. Pertierra

Black Lives Matter Minneapolis Protest

#BlackDisabledLivesMatter #BlackDisabledLivesMatter

Why we need to talk about both race and disability when addressing police brutality.

Nov 30, 2016 / Britney Wilson

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