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How Absurdly Arbitrary Choices About Debates Are Shaping the GOP Race

Excluding credible candidates from the main debate is not just unfair, it helps Trump.

John Nichols

Television

Are Colbert’s New Politics Softer, or Just More Subtle?

A political comedian reviews the first of the new Late Show.

Katie Halper
Housing and Homelessness

What if You Couldn’t Talk to Your Own Landlord?

New York City’s Housing Authority has only six employees dedicated to managing language services across the 400,000-tenant system, and only two of them speak Chinese.

Michelle Chen
Election 2016

Three Questions About Poverty the Republican Candidates Should Answer Tonight

Wednesday’s debate will be held at the library dedicated to the president who spread many of the stereotypes that are still used to demonize low-income people.

Marisol Bello
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Election 2016

Bernie in the Lion’s Den

The socialist senator from Vermont wasn’t exactly eaten alive at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in Lynchburg.

D.D. Guttenplan

Shouting Back at Donald Trump

Trump’s circus of anti-immigrant rhetoric is all fun and games until someone gets attacked.

Julianne Hing

Scott Walker's Economically (and Politically) Wrongheaded Scheme to Destroy Unions

The American people simply are not as anti-union as the governor’s active imagination tells him they are.

John Nichols

Focus on Pope Francis

How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics

Some Catholics have been quietly practicing them all along.

Nathan Schneider

If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist

The world will never be healed of its ecological ills as long as women cannot control their fertility.

Katha Pollitt

How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology

And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.

Wen Stephenson
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Watch: Hurricane Katrina Didn’t Kill New Orleans—But It Almost Did

A new documentary shows how the city has changed in the decade since the storm—and also how it hasn’t.

August 14, 2015

Watch: California’s Drought Is So Bad That Some Communities Are Trucking In Their Water

If the drought continues, farmers and residents may have to abandon some of the richest agricultural land in the country.

December 8, 2014

Watch: The Fight for Trauma Care on Chicago’s South Side

The South Side hasn’t had a trauma center for 25 years. Could activists bring one to the University of Chicago?

April 29, 2015

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