Politics

‘Weiner’: If They Cheer, or if They Jeer

‘Weiner’: If They Cheer, or if They Jeer ‘Weiner’: If They Cheer, or if They Jeer

The outstanding political film of the 2016 presidential season is about the 2013 New York City mayoral race.

May 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 9: There Went the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 9: There Went the Neighborhood There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 9: There Went the Neighborhood

The team behind There Goes the Neighborhood talks about what they’ve learned, and the way forward in a post-gentrified Brooklyn.

May 4, 2016 / Podcast / There Goes the Neighborhood and Kai Wright

Protesters for Berta Caceres

Berta Cáceres’s Killers Are Getting Good at the PR Game Berta Cáceres’s Killers Are Getting Good at the PR Game

State terrorists in Honduras have learned that to be effective, they can’t just kill and torture. They also have to be able to tell good stories.

May 3, 2016 / Greg Grandin

Bernie Sanders Should Push for a New Realism in Foreign Policy

Bernie Sanders Should Push for a New Realism in Foreign Policy Bernie Sanders Should Push for a New Realism in Foreign Policy

Sanders is helping to energize and educate a new generation coming into American politics—it is imperative that a real security agenda be part of that education.

May 3, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Contested Convention Is Exactly What the Democratic Party Needs

A Contested Convention Is Exactly What the Democratic Party Needs A Contested Convention Is Exactly What the Democratic Party Needs

Bernie Sanders will go to Philadelphia with more pledged delegates than any insurgent in modern history. Here’s what he could do with them.

May 3, 2016 / Feature / John Nichols

Rally against budget cuts

Making Sense of the Boston Public Schools Walkout Making Sense of the Boston Public Schools Walkout

The Boston Public Schools have been under sustained budget cuts for several years. This year students decided they'd had enough.

May 2, 2016 / StudentNation / Keegan O’Brien

Pro-choice protesters

What Abortion Has to Do With the Minimum Wage What Abortion Has to Do With the Minimum Wage

Advocates and members of Congress want to reframe abortion as an issue of economic security.

May 2, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Sanders Oregon Rally

Sanders Fights On for ‘the Strongest Progressive Agenda That Any Political Party Has Ever Seen’ Sanders Fights On for ‘the Strongest Progressive Agenda That Any Political Party Has Ever Seen’

Platform fights have always mattered.

Apr 29, 2016 / John Nichols

Milkwaukee Unemployment

No Plumbing, No Protection: The Story of Milwaukee’s Evicted No Plumbing, No Protection: The Story of Milwaukee’s Evicted

Many of the worst symptoms of American poverty are rooted in the instability brought on by eviction, according to a new book by sociologist Matthew Desmond.

Apr 29, 2016 / Alyssa Katz

Bernie Sanders sign held in front of flag

Bernie Sanders and His Supporters Should Do What the Democratic Party Won’t: Advocate for Candidates of Color Bernie Sanders and His Supporters Should Do What the Democratic Party Won’t: Advocate for Candidates of Color

By focusing on supporting progressive leaders and organizations of color, they could make a mark that lasts long beyond 2016.

Apr 29, 2016 / Steve Phillips

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