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When Time Stopped Forever
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Trump Is Fighting a New Trade War—and This One Is Intramural
A nasty White House battle has broken out between right-wing nationalists and globalist financiers.
William Greider
Democrats Need to Understand Why the Rust Belt’s White Workers Still Support Trump
D.D. Guttenplan on working-class Ohio, plus Katha Pollitt on abortion politics and Ari Berman on voting in Texas.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Trump’s Plan to Eliminate Public Broadcasting Would Hurt Listeners in Trump Country
Stations that serve rural areas neglected by corporate media would lose their funding.
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The Enduring Struggle
Frederick Douglass’s radical vision of democratic politics.
Matt Karp“AFTER FRED. DOUGLASS.—” barked an October 1850 headline in the Mississippi Free Trader, the state’s leading Democratic newspaper. The article below it went on to note: “We are very much pleased to learn that a party of Marylanders are in pursuit of the sweet pet and fragrant expounder of the… Continue Reading >
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“Kremlin-puppet” allegations against Trump are said to have crippled Trump’s ability to initiate cooperative relations with Moscow—but have they?
Stephen F. Cohen
White Innocence and the Dutch Elections
A debate over Zwarte Piet has exposed the deeply held Dutch belief that racism happens elsewhere.
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The president’s military strategy seems to be entirely rooted in old war movies.
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Algeria’s New Imprint
How Éditions Barzakh publishes books for Algerians who think and dream for themselves.
Alice Kaplan
The Mind of a Feminist
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