Trump’s War on Trans Rights: A Q&A With Chase Strangio

The ACLU lawyer describes how governments change definitions to exclude people.

Naomi Gordon-Loebl

Where the Blue Wave Hit a Red Wall

Progressives picked up some sweet victories, but Election Day also brought some sobering lessons.

D.D. Guttenplan

Last Night, the Feminist Insurgency Hit the Polls—and Now It’s Headed to Congress

Women candidates won big—and a larger proportion of women voters went more Democratic than in any midterms before.

Joan Walsh

Winning the House, Democrats Vow to Check and Balance Trump

Nancy Pelosi, Elijah Cummings, and Jerry Nadler now have the power to hold the president to account.

John Nichols

Actual Distance

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Peter Kuper

For Ntozake Shange, Who Conjured the Rainbow

Through bravery and pain, she wrote with fierce love for young black women.

Rebecca Carroll

Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Trump’s hateful rhetoric encourages mass violence.

Eric Alterman

The White House and the Caravan

Calvin Trillin

Letters From the December 3-10, 2018, Issue

This is what heroism looks like… Lost in translation… Humph!…

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