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The Trump-Shaped Stain on American Life The Trump-Shaped Stain on American Life

From the courts to the border to the meaning of truth, damage has been done.

Nov 13, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Plea From Federal Death Row: ‘We Need You to Raise Your Voices’

A Plea From Federal Death Row: ‘We Need You to Raise Your Voices’ A Plea From Federal Death Row: ‘We Need You to Raise Your Voices’

As the Trump administration rushes to execute more and more people, my friends are dying—and I might be next.

Nov 12, 2020 / Dateline / Billie Allen

The Affordable Care Act May Live to Die Another Day

The Affordable Care Act May Live to Die Another Day The Affordable Care Act May Live to Die Another Day

The oral arguments for the latest challenge to the ACA, played out before an ultraconservative Supreme Court, appeared to go about as well as anyone could have hoped.

Nov 11, 2020 / Elie Mystal

College Costs More Than What’s on the Bill — That’s Why Students Should Strike

College Costs More Than What’s on the Bill — That’s Why Students Should Strike College Costs More Than What’s on the Bill — That’s Why Students Should Strike

How much of your tuition is funding campus police? A lot more than you think.

Nov 11, 2020 / StudentNation / Miranda Dotson

A police officer holds a riot shield that reads POLICE

Police Terror Won’t End With the Trump Administration Police Terror Won’t End With the Trump Administration

Post–Election Day cop brutality points to the continuation of a violent reality for protesters.

Nov 11, 2020 / Chris Gelardi

This Would Be a Very Good Time to Impeach William Barr

This Would Be a Very Good Time to Impeach William Barr This Would Be a Very Good Time to Impeach William Barr

The attorney general’s weaponization of the Department of Justice on behalf of Trump’s assault on the 2020 election is a "very" high crime.

Nov 10, 2020 / John Nichols

Trump Is Trying to Overturn the Election, but I’m Not Panicking—Yet

Trump Is Trying to Overturn the Election, but I’m Not Panicking—Yet Trump Is Trying to Overturn the Election, but I’m Not Panicking—Yet

All the reasons I think the Trump-GOP gambit to deny Biden’s victory will not change the fact that he will become president on January 20.

Nov 10, 2020 / Elie Mystal

Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation

Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation

Immigrant rights advocates allege that ICE detainees are being coerced, sometimes violently, into signing their own removal papers and returned to a country that is arresting and b...

Nov 9, 2020 / John Washington

John Kasich Contributed Nothing to Biden’s Election, So Why Should Democrats Listen to His Claptrap?

John Kasich Contributed Nothing to Biden’s Election, So Why Should Democrats Listen to His Claptrap? John Kasich Contributed Nothing to Biden’s Election, So Why Should Democrats Listen to His Claptrap?

Kasich claims the left harmed Democrats. Wrong. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and movements boosted turnout and helped swing key states.

Nov 9, 2020 / John Nichols

Jared Kushner: Nepotism at Work

Jared Kushner: Nepotism at Work Jared Kushner: Nepotism at Work

Son-in-lawless.

Nov 7, 2020 / OppArt / Jos Sances

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