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Dec 16, 2025
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand
The agency is unlawfully giving up on fighting disparate impact discrimination—meaning it’s “open season” on employees.
Dec 16, 2025 / Bryce Covert
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman
From Aftyn to Zohran: A Road Map for Democratic Victory From Aftyn to Zohran: A Road Map for Democratic Victory
This year, progressive young Democrats sketched a path to meaningful wins in 2026. Is the party paying attention?
Dec 16, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols
Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us
The Hoosier State’s Senate showed rare backbone in resisting the Trump White House’s demand for a mid-cycle gerrymander. But the Roberts court gets the final say.
Dec 15, 2025 / David Daley
In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace
A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.
Dec 15, 2025 / Jeet Heer
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
Dec 15, 2025 / Greg Grandin