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Letters From the April 15, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 15, 2019, Issue

What about the Marshall Court?… The white supremacists around us… Debating the need for debate…

Mar 28, 2019 / Our Readers

Sanders unflattering

The Liberal Case Against Bernie The Liberal Case Against Bernie

With a dangerous lunatic in the White House, voting for Sanders is too big a risk.

Mar 28, 2019 / Column / Eric Alterman

Don’t Trust Barr on the Mueller Report

Don’t Trust Barr on the Mueller Report Don’t Trust Barr on the Mueller Report

John Nichols on the attorney general, Greg Grandin on Trump’s wall, and Adam Hochschild on Woodrow Wilson.

Mar 28, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Rachel Maddow

The Real Costs of Russiagate The Real Costs of Russiagate

Its perpetrators, not Putin or Trump, “attacked American democracy.”

Mar 27, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Trump at Carrier Plant

Declining Federal Oversight of Workplace Safety Could Have Fatal Consequences Declining Federal Oversight of Workplace Safety Could Have Fatal Consequences

A drop in federal safety inspectors has coincided with an increase in deaths in workplaces monitored by OSHA.

Mar 27, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Berlin Gentrification

Berlin’s Radical Housing Activists Aren’t Afraid of Expropriations Berlin’s Radical Housing Activists Aren’t Afraid of Expropriations

Germany’s hippest city is debating whether to seize 200,000 homes from landlords and turn them into social housing.

Mar 27, 2019 / Lukas Hermsmeier

Abortion clinic Mississippi

Conservatives Call for Civility, Claim Democrats Want to Murder Babies Conservatives Call for Civility, Claim Democrats Want to Murder Babies

None of the people decrying the lack of manners in American politics has batted an eye over the truly outrageous charges of “infanticide.”

Mar 27, 2019 / Joshua Holland

News Flash!

News Flash! News Flash!

Not the most diverse picture.

Mar 27, 2019 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Robert Mueller sworn in

RIP, Russiagate RIP, Russiagate

The implosion of the collusion theory is a humiliation for everyone who promoted it.

Mar 26, 2019 / Aaron Maté

New York State Can Lead the Country on Publicly Financed Elections

New York State Can Lead the Country on Publicly Financed Elections New York State Can Lead the Country on Publicly Financed Elections

A broad-based coalition of labor, environmental, racial- and social-justice groups is making a critical push this week for doable and transformative reform.

Mar 26, 2019 / John Nichols

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