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December 2, 2022
Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today
Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Spanish Prime Minster Pedro Sanchez both find themselves besieged by a virulent resurgence of the same right-wing movements that demolished democracy in Chile.
Ariel Dorfman
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December 1, 2022
American Authoritarianism Isn’t Going Away
Neither the failure of the January 6 insurrection nor the disappointments suffered in the midterm elections have deterred the ambitions of the GOP’s fanatics.
Clarence Lusane
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November 30, 2022
Reverend William Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Republican Party
Remember the role your forebears played in America’s first Reconstruction.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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November 28, 2022
The Disturbing World of the New GOP
The 2022 midterms saw the Republican Party complete its devolution into a party that has fully abandoned its conscience.
John Nichols
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November 22, 2022
The Upside to FTX’s Downfall
Congress has the chance to be bipartisan at last and regulate Big Tech.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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November 22, 2022
Reverend Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Democratic Party
“I am troubled by the satisfaction many seem to have with a political reality that will lead to continued policy violence.”
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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November 18, 2022
The Democrats Have a Crypto Problem
The high costs of taking money from Sam Bankman-Fried.
Jeet Heer
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November 18, 2022
America’s Political Crisis Goes Beyond Trump
Given the startling proliferation of illiberal and antidemocratic tendencies in the American polity, how should we rate the health of our own liberal democracy?
Andrew J. Bacevich
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November 17, 2022
Democrats Shouldn’t Take Women Voters for Granted
Far from alienating the electorate, an emphasis on abortion rights delivered victory.
Katha Pollitt
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November 15, 2022
Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court
The Pacific island nation’s attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.
Pete McKenzie