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Migrants in New Mexico

A Trans Asylum Seeker Dies After Pleading to ICE for Medical Care A Trans Asylum Seeker Dies After Pleading to ICE for Medical Care

In a disturbing pattern, ICE won’t even count Johana Medina Leon’s death among those that occurred in its custody.

Jun 4, 2019 / Nathan Craig and Margaret Brown Vega

Shutdown Worker

Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response

Piecemeal reforms won’t do the job.

Jun 4, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Nancy Pelosi

3-D Chess? We Just Want Nancy Pelosi to Connect the Dots. 3-D Chess? We Just Want Nancy Pelosi to Connect the Dots.

Progressives shouldn’t believe in unknowable plans on faith.

Jun 4, 2019 / Elie Mystal

A demonstrator protests in front of the Supreme Court as President Donald Trump announces Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee.

Don’t Just Pack the Court. Reimagine It. Don’t Just Pack the Court. Reimagine It.

It’s easy to understand the appeal of simply adding two (or four or six) liberal justices. But that’s just one potential reform, and this is a moment when all options should be on ...

Jun 4, 2019 / Joshua Holland

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Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue

A Nation of Elites? Katha Pollitt’s trenchant first-person account of the 1969 student strike at Harvard University [“Harvard’s Strike at 50,” May 20/27] raises a question about Th…

Jun 4, 2019

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Robert Mueller, American Sphinx Robert Mueller, American Sphinx

Insufficient evidence is not evidence of insufficiency...or something.

Jun 4, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

John Hickenlooper

If Democrats Pull Their Punches, Donald Trump Will Knock Them Out If Democrats Pull Their Punches, Donald Trump Will Knock Them Out

Tepid Democratic candidates calling for middle ground are doomed to fail.

Jun 3, 2019 / John Nichols

Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor

Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor

By redefining poverty, millions fewer people would be able to take advantage of lifesaving programs.

May 31, 2019 / Bryce Covert

Donald Trump on the lawn

Impeachment Would Affirm the Will of the People Impeachment Would Affirm the Will of the People

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Can we stop imagining that holding him to account would overturn the country’s general will?

May 29, 2019 / John Nichols

Joe Biden with ice cream

Joe Biden’s Whiteness Isn’t the Problem Joe Biden’s Whiteness Isn’t the Problem

Don’t hate Biden because he’s a white guy. Hate his policies and his regressive voting record.

May 29, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman

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