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Reminder: Exit-Poll Conspiracy Theories Are Totally Baseless

Voters have good reason to lack confidence in our election systems. But claims of widespread fraud aren’t going to fix anything.

Joshua Holland

Election 2016

‘Textbook’ Racism Is Not a Deal Breaker for Paul Ryan

The speaker says Donald Trump’s remarks “should be absolutely disavowed.” And he says he is still backing Trump. Huh?

John Nichols
Election 2016

Clinton May Take the Nomination, but Sanders Has Won the Debate

Sanders hasn’t merely won a seat at the table—he’s started a sea change in Democratic politics. 

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Election 2016

Neither Bernie nor Hillary Truly Addressed Economic Inequality

Because both candidates’ platforms fell short on the worst and oldest inequity: the racial wealth gap. Here’s how to fix that.

Vishnu Sridharan
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Election 2016

The Sanders Campaign Can Still Win a Future to Believe In

Its ideas and energy can lead to an era of progressive governance—if it keeps its eyes on the prize.

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Hillary Clinton Will Claim a Historic Victory Tuesday Night—and the Media Should Cover It That Way

But Sanders and his voters deserve time to think about their next steps, too.

Joan Walsh

How to Fight a Fascist and Win

Beating Donald Trump at the polls will be a necessary, but wholly insufficient step.

Gary Younge

Remembering the greatest

‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali

Ali was shaped by his times. But his death should remind us that he also shaped them.

Dave Zirin

Dr. Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and What Their Secret Friendship Teaches Us Today

Dr. Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali shared a bond in their commitment against war and for social justice. It wasn’t a popular bond and it deserves to be remembered.

Dave Zirin

Muhammad Ali and the Black Panther Party

A new documentary about the Panthers should serve to remind us that the greatest, most important athlete of the 20th century was no bystander to their revolution.

Dave Zirin
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Books & the Arts

Is the Supreme Court’s Role Overstated?

In Engines of Liberty, David Cole trains a light on civil society as a more reliable agent of constitutional change.

Michael O’Donnell

The Chameleon Painter

Even in his most pared-down paintings, Phillip Guston was digging for something new.

Barry Schwabsky

The Afterlife of Polaroid

The company presents a case study in photography as a phenomenon of the instantaneous.

Frances Richard

Watch and Listen

Listen: Can the Democratic Party Be United?

Plus: the myth of “independent voters,” and Tom Frank on Hillary Clinton and poor women.

May 26, 2016

Listen: Donald Trump Knows the Age of Reagan Is Over. Does Hillary?

Plus climate protests around the world, and Patrick Cockburn’s ISIS update.

May 19, 2016

View: These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall

A collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo captures the austere brutality of the borderlands.

May 11, 2016
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