Government

What It Takes

What It Takes What It Takes

Exit through the grift shop. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of July 26.

Jul 30, 2021 / The Greater Quiet / Steve Brodner

Greene and Gaetz maskless

The Delta Variant Is Contagious as Hell—and People Are Selfish The Delta Variant Is Contagious as Hell—and People Are Selfish

As fierce as the variant is, we could slow its course. But first, Republicans would have to learn basic decency and wear a damn mask.

Jul 30, 2021 / Elie Mystal

Gov. Gavin Newsom presents the nation's largest rent relief program as Part of the $100 Billion California Comeback Plan.

Homelessness Escalates as California’s Recall Election Nears Homelessness Escalates as California’s Recall Election Nears

The country's biggest blue state faces a potential upheaval.

Jul 30, 2021 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky

Nurses Know Better Than Kevin McCarthy: Bring Masks Back

Nurses Know Better Than Kevin McCarthy: Bring Masks Back Nurses Know Better Than Kevin McCarthy: Bring Masks Back

The National Nurses United union is pleading that masks be “universal, in all settings, for all people, regardless of vaccination status.”

Jul 29, 2021 / John Nichols

Homeless on the Range

Homeless on the Range Homeless on the Range

Between the lines.

Jul 29, 2021 / OppArt / Ann Telnaes

A cell block of Cummins Unit

Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them

Democrats should offer their own 21st-century vision for reducing crime.

Jul 28, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Spread the Word

Spread the Word Spread the Word

Fighting hate is the battle.

Jul 28, 2021 / OppArt / Gabriel Thomas

America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why.

America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why. America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why.

Two decades of forever wars created a failing empire. Biden’s foreign policy is just continuing the destructive legacy.

Jul 28, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt

Police officers testifying at January 6th hearings

‘A Hit Man Sent Them’: Police Officers Testify to the Violence Done on January 6 ‘A Hit Man Sent Them’: Police Officers Testify to the Violence Done on January 6

Four officers told a House Select Committee what they saw. They called it an “attempted coup” and “terrorism” and blamed Donald Trump. And so should we all.

Jul 27, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Capitol Insurrection

Congress and the States Are Constitutionally Empowered to Crack Down on Trump and His Seditionists Congress and the States Are Constitutionally Empowered to Crack Down on Trump and His Seditionists

Just as Speaker Pelosi has excluded members of Congress’s “sedition caucus,” from the January 6 inquiry, so state officials have the right to exclude Trump and his co-conspirators ...

Jul 27, 2021 / Highlights / John Nichols

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