Pelosi Sends a Message Pelosi Sends a Message
The House passed the HEROES Act, which is a good start, but our new normal demands a bold progressive agenda.
May 15, 2020 / no-paywall / Robert L. Borosage
Would You Buy a Used Progressive Agenda From This Man? Would You Buy a Used Progressive Agenda From This Man?
Progressive voters have to balance hope with skepticism as they are wooed by the former vice president.
May 15, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Lame-Duck Injustice: Wisconsin’s Latest Political Horror Story Lame-Duck Injustice: Wisconsin’s Latest Political Horror Story
A Supreme Court justice who was rejected by voters last month cast the deciding vote against maintaining protections against the spread of Covid-19.
May 15, 2020 / John Nichols
If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists… If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists…
Attacking science, forcing people back to work, closing the border, suppressing the vote—the Trump/GOP strategy looks increasingly like white nationalist accelerationism.
May 15, 2020 / no-paywall / Sasha Abramsky
Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly
They saw themselves as entitled to police the movements, motivations, and ultimately, the right to exist of a black stranger.
May 15, 2020 / Column / Kali Holloway
Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants
The city’s emergency measures will only delay a huge wave of evictions until later this year.
May 14, 2020 / no-paywall / Jacob Woocher
The Supreme Court Has Given Its Blessing to Public Corruption The Supreme Court Has Given Its Blessing to Public Corruption
With its Bridgegate decision, the Supreme Court put another nail in the coffin of our corruption laws.
May 14, 2020 / Editorial / Elie Mystal
There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out
A lawsuit about conditions at Danbury prison shows why it is impossible to keep the incarcerated safe.
May 14, 2020 / no-paywall / Daniel Fernandez
Trump’s New Press Secretary Fits Right In Trump’s New Press Secretary Fits Right In
Everywhere you look, the president has appointed people who undermine their job’s essential reason for being.
May 14, 2020 / Column / Eric Alterman
Reopening: A Chronicle of Needless Deaths Foretold Reopening: A Chronicle of Needless Deaths Foretold
Brace yourselves for a long, slow burn. We will not get our epidemic under control in the US.
May 14, 2020 / no-paywall / Gregg Gonsalves