LIVE CHAT: Join Us Now for the Democratic National Convention LIVE CHAT: Join Us Now for the Democratic National Convention
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Aug 20, 2020 / Live Chat / The Nation
Elizabeth Warren Is Prepared to Prosecute Trump Elizabeth Warren Is Prepared to Prosecute Trump
Show Trump and his henchmen no mercy. Go after them on the campaign trail in 2020, and then hold them to account in 2021.
Aug 20, 2020 / John Nichols
Obama’s High-Minded Civics Lesson Asks Too Much of Us Obama’s High-Minded Civics Lesson Asks Too Much of Us
The storied orator frames the case against Trump as a matter of democracy and decency. But democracy also includes results.
Aug 20, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Milwaukee Has a Lot to Teach Joe Biden and the Democrats Milwaukee Has a Lot to Teach Joe Biden and the Democrats
Representative Gwen Moore spoke of a “city where blood was shed for labor rights, where a fugitive slave was freed from prison, where women’s right to vote was first ratified.”
Aug 19, 2020 / John Nichols
Dissenting Delegates Send a Medicare for All Message to Joe Biden Dissenting Delegates Send a Medicare for All Message to Joe Biden
Biden is nominated, but even some of his own delegates say that he should embrace a single-payer response to America’s health care crisis.
Aug 19, 2020 / John Nichols
The First Night of the DNC Felt Like a Really Brutal Doctor’s Appointment The First Night of the DNC Felt Like a Really Brutal Doctor’s Appointment
While the Democrats worked overtime to convey how sick the country is, they forgot to mention how they’re going to save us.
Aug 18, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Progressives, Get Ready to Push Biden and Harris Progressives, Get Ready to Push Biden and Harris
Putting a Biden-Harris administration in power will not guarantee the change this country needs.
Aug 18, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Moral Power of Michelle Obama’s Anti-Politics The Moral Power of Michelle Obama’s Anti-Politics
The former first lady makes the personal case against Donald Trump.
Aug 18, 2020 / Jeet Heer
How Biden Should Spend His First Days as President How Biden Should Spend His First Days as President
If Biden wins in November, he will have to start working to address the crises facing our planet the moment he steps into the Oval Office.
Aug 18, 2020 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Trump’s Post Office Sabotage Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg Trump’s Post Office Sabotage Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
Here's what the president’s been up to, in between retweeting conspiracies.
Aug 18, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow