Summer of Strikes—Plus, After Affirmative Action Summer of Strikes—Plus, After Affirmative Action
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Jane McAlevey talks about unions, and John Nichols comments on the politics of education.
Jul 6, 2023 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat
If he wants to go beyond preaching to the converted, he needs to take his socialist politics into the Democratic primaries.
Jul 6, 2023 / D.D. Guttenplan and Bhaskar Sunkara
Asian American Conservatives Have Become Key Allies of White Supremacy Asian American Conservatives Have Become Key Allies of White Supremacy
As the death of affirmative action showed, Asian American conservatives are active, militant co-conspirators with white conservatives.
Jul 6, 2023 / Promise Li
Remembering Marvin Kitman Remembering Marvin Kitman
He ran for president of the United States in 1964—as the candidate of Monocle magazine.
Jul 5, 2023 / Richard Lingeman
Robert Kennedy Jr. Is a Flawed Heretic Robert Kennedy Jr. Is a Flawed Heretic
But on security and Ukraine, he’s making more sense than the crackpot establishment.
Jul 5, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Moms for Liberty Came to Philly. Philly Came for Them. Moms for Liberty Came to Philly. Philly Came for Them.
This city is welcoming to just about everyone—except hateful fascist bigots, as the Moms for Liberty found out.
Jul 5, 2023 / Kim Kelly
The Reactionary Social Vision of the Supreme Court The Reactionary Social Vision of the Supreme Court
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Moira Donegan discusses the court’s rollback of a century of economic and social progress.
Why and How to Pack the Court Why and How to Pack the Court
On the first episode of the Contempt of Court podcast, Chris Kang and Representative Jamaal Bowman explore what court expansion actually is, and how attitudes around it are finally...
Jul 4, 2023 / Podcast / Elie Mystal
The Right’s Attempted Extermination Campaign of Queer People Is Textbook Fascism The Right’s Attempted Extermination Campaign of Queer People Is Textbook Fascism
What does it mean to deprive a trans person of such care? It can, in fact, prove to be a death sentence.
Jul 4, 2023 / Rebecca Gordon
Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July
John Quincy Adams warned on July 4, 1821, that the US should speak "the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights"—not of empire. He was right.
Jul 4, 2023 / John Nichols