How the Safe Bet Lost in North Carolina How the Safe Bet Lost in North Carolina
What doomed Cal Cunningham may have been the same thing that made him appealing in the first place: He never took a firm position on anything, even himself.
Dec 11, 2020 / Drew Millard
Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid
This during the deadliest week so far in the pandemic, with infection rates at upwards of 220,000 per day.
Dec 11, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Human Rights Day Human Rights Day
Will the USA remember our promise?
Dec 10, 2020 / OppArt / Jos Sances
A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition
Get a fresh start after a rotten year—help those who help others.
Dec 10, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt
So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine? So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine?
And why do I still have to wear a mask?
Dec 10, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves
Personnel as Policy: What Biden’s Picks So Far Tell Us Personnel as Policy: What Biden’s Picks So Far Tell Us
For progressives, Biden’s nominees include the good, the bad—and the just plain ugly.
Dec 10, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage for The Nation
I Know Rahm Emanuel, and He Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near the White House I Know Rahm Emanuel, and He Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near the White House
Appointing Rahm as secretary of transportation would be a slap in the face not only to Chicago but to all union members who sent Biden to the White House.
Dec 10, 2020 / Stacy Davis Gates
Trump’s Last Gasp Is a Scheme to Disenfranchise 20,756,421 American Voters—and He’s Getting Help Trump’s Last Gasp Is a Scheme to Disenfranchise 20,756,421 American Voters—and He’s Getting Help
By embracing a Texas lawsuit to cancel the results from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, the president pushes the ultimate voter suppression.
Dec 9, 2020 / John Nichols
Progressives Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Fighting Biden’s Nominees Progressives Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Fighting Biden’s Nominees
The incoming administration is owed no deference when it picks corporate insiders.
Dec 9, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Raging Pandemic, Anemic Response Raging Pandemic, Anemic Response
Americans suffer while the GOP dithers.