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Why the Trump Rally in St. Louis Was So Different

In a city divided after 17 months of protests since the killing of Mike Brown, decades of economic decline, and generations of racism and segregation, Donald Trump never got more than a few minutes to speak without interruption.

Umar Lee

Election 2016

It’s Not About Trump. Our Political Culture Is Corrupt.

The Southern strategy created an us-against-them politics with a perverse idea of morality.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Election 2016

Gay Men Feel Hillary Clinton’s Pain—but Does She Feel Ours?

Clinton’s apology, which doesn’t acknowledge the righteous pain caused by her remarks, reveals a social distance that gay men might want to take a closer look at.

Richard Kim
Election 2016

Trump Rallies Have Become Violent Mobs—and Republicans Think That’s OK

Not one GOP candidate condemned the violence. Now a pro-Trump “news” site explains away an attack on its own reporter. Will anyone grow a spine?

Joan Walsh
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Special Report

Win or Lose, the Sanders Campaign Is Building a Movement in Florida

When Sanders says this isn’t just about electing a president, he means it. So do his supporters.
D.D. Guttenplan

Ybor City—Florida was not feeling The Bern. It's less than a month before the March 15 Democratic primary, and I’m spending the afternoon phone banking at the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) office here in what used to be the center of Florida’s hand-rolled cigar industry. A historic neighborhood near… Continue Reading >

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Listen: Mouth to Ear

In the first episode of our new podcast series, we visit Bed-Stuy to learn how developers find properties to flip—and what happens to people who already live there.

March 9, 2016

Listen: Start Making Sense: Trump, Master of Hate

The front-runner’s terrifying supporters, the state of the GOP field, and American Muslims and Trump.

March 3, 2016
March 2, 2016
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Election 2016

Hillary Clinton Is Exposing the Dark Underbelly of the Democrats’ Money Machine

Her campaign has put a spotlight on the cozy relationships between Democratic operatives and corporate America.

Joshua Holland

The Gaping Hole in Clinton’s and Sanders’s Plans for Criminal Justice Reform

Why aren’t more reform-minded politicians talking about the public defender shortfall?

Zoë Carpenter

Before Her Murder, Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Criticism

The presidential candidate has ignored criticism of her role in enabling the consolidation of the Honduran coup.

Greg Grandin

Books & the Arts

Stranger Than ‘House Of Cards’

Given the absurdities of the current political season, it is worth asking why the return of the Netflix drama was so highly anticipated.

K. Leander Williams

A Critic’s Job of Work

I don’t see my job as making or breaking an artist. I have other responsibilities toward art.

Barry Schwabsky

A European Union?

Stefan Zweig’s essays in Messages From a Lost World are a product of his displacement and a sharp reminder to citizens about the agony in the present age of the refugee.

Gavin Jacobson

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