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What a Debate Run by Women Looks Like

What a Debate Run by Women Looks Like What a Debate Run by Women Looks Like

Last night’s moderators showed us what American political life would look like if women’s concerns were routinely at the center of the conversation.

Nov 21, 2019 / Joan Walsh

Student debt protest

Student Loan Borrowers Need More Protection—and California Is Leading the Way Student Loan Borrowers Need More Protection—and California Is Leading the Way

Lawmakers in California have put forward the first legislation of its kind that would create clear, enforceable protections against abuses by student loan companies.

Nov 21, 2019 / StudentNation / Seth Frotman and Natalia Abrams

If Prison Conditions Don’t Improve, ‘It Will Be Our Blood Running Through the Water’

If Prison Conditions Don’t Improve, ‘It Will Be Our Blood Running Through the Water’ If Prison Conditions Don’t Improve, ‘It Will Be Our Blood Running Through the Water’

Meet Swift Justice, the incarcerated organizer fighting to transform Alabama’s prisons.

Nov 21, 2019 / Olivia Heffernan

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Gail Collins: Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the Complicated Story of Women and Aging in America Gail Collins: Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the Complicated Story of Women and Aging in America

Plus Rick Perlstein on impeachment and Eric Foner on the 1619 Project.

Nov 21, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Ady Barkan DACA Protest

Why I’m Endorsing Elizabeth Warren Why I’m Endorsing Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth or Bernie? It’s a difficult and wonderful choice to have.

Nov 20, 2019 / Ady Barkan

How One Town Developed a New Way to Police

How One Town Developed a New Way to Police How One Town Developed a New Way to Police

Renton, Washington, has become a national model for inclusive governing.

Nov 20, 2019 / Glenn Nelson

When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game

When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game

Women’s leagues have become much safer spaces for queerness, while men’s sports are still trapped in a culture of repression.

Nov 20, 2019 / Payal Dhar

Hong Kong Was Never Built to Stand Up to China

Hong Kong Was Never Built to Stand Up to China Hong Kong Was Never Built to Stand Up to China

The power of the territory’s courts was dismissed by Beijing this week—proving just how weak Hong Kong’s rule of law has always been.

Nov 19, 2019 / Yukiko Kobayashi Lui

Participants hold signs as Democratic U.S. presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington

The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question

Do we have the courage to make health care a right, not a privilege?

Nov 19, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

President Donald Trump

Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants

But US soldiers who commit war crimes? They’re “deserving individuals” who deserve “second chances.”

Nov 19, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

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