Politics

Redlining Returns To Denver, but With a Neoliberal Twist

Redlining Returns To Denver, but With a Neoliberal Twist Redlining Returns To Denver, but With a Neoliberal Twist

The last great surge in highway-based urban renewal projects displaced residents and divided communities. Now an attempt to correct those mistakes might only compound them.

Jul 31, 2017 / Caroline Tracey

Portland Counter-Trump Rally

When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean? When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean?

For a few weeks in Portland, I got a glimpse of what real solidarity looks like.

Jul 31, 2017 / Donnell Alexander

Seattle income tax

These Cities Are Putting Our Fractious Federal Government to Shame These Cities Are Putting Our Fractious Federal Government to Shame

Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, from Denver to Minneapolis.

Jul 31, 2017 / Cities Rising / Jimmy Tobias

John Kelly and Donald Trump

Meet John Kelly, Donald Trump’s New Enabler in Chief Meet John Kelly, Donald Trump’s New Enabler in Chief

Kelly has a record of coddling Trump—and no good will come of that.

Jul 28, 2017 / John Nichols

John Kelly’s Promotion Is a Disaster for Immigrants

John Kelly’s Promotion Is a Disaster for Immigrants John Kelly’s Promotion Is a Disaster for Immigrants

In just six months, Kelly turned DHS into a deportation machine.

Jul 28, 2017 / Julianne Hing

A protestor on Capitol Hill

Disability-Rights Activists Are the Real Heroes of the Health-Care Fight Disability-Rights Activists Are the Real Heroes of the Health-Care Fight

They put their bodies on the line to save Medicaid and Obamacare. 

Jul 28, 2017 / John Nichols

ABC News McConnell

Russia v. Health Care (and Everything Else) Russia v. Health Care (and Everything Else)

Vying for the media’s attention.

Jul 28, 2017 / Leslie Savan

Rwandan President Paul Kagame attends a campaign rally

Rwanda’s Elections and the Myth of Women’s Empowerment Rwanda’s Elections and the Myth of Women’s Empowerment

Opposition to President Paul Kagame’s reelection has been jailed, thwarted, and suppressed.

Jul 28, 2017 / Claude Gatebuke and Helen C. Epstein

Senator John McCain looks on during a press conference

John McCain Isn’t a Hero for Not Killing His Constituents John McCain Isn’t a Hero for Not Killing His Constituents

But his vote did expose the cowardice of 49 of his Republican colleagues.

Jul 28, 2017 / Joshua Holland

Trump at the White House.

What Power Does Trump Have to Stop the Russia Investigation? What Power Does Trump Have to Stop the Russia Investigation?

David Cole on the president pardoning himself.

Jul 28, 2017 / Jon Wiener

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