A Fire May Have Wiped Out 40 Years of Chinese American History A Fire May Have Wiped Out 40 Years of Chinese American History
The archives of the Museum of Chinese in America may have been destroyed, but the institution is still a crucial repository of community memory.
Jan 29, 2020 / Madeline Leung Coleman
Tennessee’s Chemical Castration Bill Shows Local Republicans Have One Thing on Their Minds Tennessee’s Chemical Castration Bill Shows Local Republicans Have One Thing on Their Minds
“It's a return, if you will, to the dark ages,” one civil rights advocate says.
Jan 29, 2020 / Jennifer Bernstein
Kobe Bryant: America’s Imperfect Icon Kobe Bryant: America’s Imperfect Icon
Remembering Kobe’s greatness isn’t incompatible with acknowledging his flaws.
Jan 28, 2020 / Aaron Ross Coleman
Take Action Now: End Gun Violence Take Action Now: End Gun Violence
Tell Congress we need background checks, support gun control in your state, and fight to end abortion bans.
Jan 28, 2020 / NationAction
The Trump Team’s Legal Defense Was a Tour de Force of Hypocrisy The Trump Team’s Legal Defense Was a Tour de Force of Hypocrisy
From Ken Starr to Alan Dershowitz, the president’s lawyers spewed illogical arguments that contradicted their own well-known positions.
Jan 28, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Trump Acts Like a Mafia Don—and GOP Senators Yawn Trump Acts Like a Mafia Don—and GOP Senators Yawn
Day by day, tweet by presidential tweet, the country retreats from its democratic premise, yet the grandees of the GOP decline to intervene.
Jan 28, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation? Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation?
A recent book argues that liberalism has an “unexpected debt” to evangelical religion.
Jan 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Keith Thomas
Elizabeth Warren Got More Than an Endorsement From ‘The Des Moines Register’ Elizabeth Warren Got More Than an Endorsement From ‘The Des Moines Register’
The paper offered a theory for how to frame the campaign going forward: “[Warren’s] ideas aren’t radical. They are right.”
Jan 27, 2020 / John Nichols
Beating Trump Is the Goal. What if Joe Rogan Fans Will Help? Beating Trump Is the Goal. What if Joe Rogan Fans Will Help?
Much of the criticism of Sanders for accepting the endorsement rewrites the past and present of Democratic Party electoral politics.
Jan 27, 2020 / Ed Burmila