Why Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Invited to CAP’s Ideas Conference
The party has a coalition-building problem.
George Zornick The party has a coalition-building problem.
Democrats
Georgia Can Elect the First African-American Woman Governor in History
Democrats, please don’t mess this one up!
Steve PhillipsCriminal Justice
A New Film About Rikers Lets Inmates Describe the Jail’s Brutality in Their Own Words
Rikers: An American Jail is coming out just as debate over how to close the notorious facility is reaching a fever pitch.
Ed RampellMiddle East
In Iran’s Presidential Elections, Reformists’ Hopes Are Limited
They have united many formerly opposed voters—but for now, the fight for personal and political freedoms is taking a backseat.
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Did Trump Commit a Crime in Sharing Intelligence With Moscow?
The idea that these leaks to the Post by “current and former U.S. officials” are in the service of US national security interests strains credulity. They manifestly are not.
James Carden
Today 7:00 am History
To the Republic, for Which It Stands
From the Magazine
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“There are few places where one can still read courageous journalism. The Nation is one.” - Alec Baldwin
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April 24-May 1, 2017, Issue
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You Are Now Paying Internet Companies to Sell Your Browsing History to Advertisers
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Books & the Arts
Le Pen’s Long Shadow
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Why Trump’s Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail
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Policing the Colony: From the American Revolution to Ferguson
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Books & the Arts
The Red Emigrant
By Bruce Robbins
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Democrats Fighting to Win
Can Rob Quist’s Full-Throated Populism Win Back Rural America?
The banjo-playing, cowboy hat-wearing folk singer is battling a tech billionaire—and doing it the Montana way.
D.D. GuttenplanPramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough
The freshman congresswoman from Washington thinks that this is the time when progressive ideas can go mainstream.
Joan WalshCan Senator Jeff Merkley Help Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative?
The soft-spoken Oregonian is a relentless legislator and a staunch progressive—and his rise comes at a crucial time.
Zoë CarpenterNation Voices
Politics
The Senate Must Demand an Independent Special Prosecutor
Just as in Watergate, Comey’s firing requires political courage from members of Congress.
Elizabeth Holtzman
How Long Can Republicans Ignore Evidence That Trump Obstructed Justice?
We may have to wait until 2018 for Congress to do its job.
Joan Walsh
How Should We Investigate Trump’s Firing of Comey?
We need a special prosecutor—but an independent commission or select congressional committee would also help.
David ColeWorld
How China Is Building the Post-Western World
Beijing’s Belt and Road project may be the largest single infrastructure program in human history.
Patrick LawrenceIn Tartous, Syria, Women Wear Black, Youth Are in Hiding, and Bitterness Grows
This Alawite city used to support the regime, but most now believe Assad cheated his own people by sending them into an endless, pointless war.
Alimar Lazkani and Roy GutmanTrump Is Poised to Plunge Deeper Into the Afghan Quagmire
More US troops cannot stabilize the corrupt and despised government in Kabul.
Michael T. Klare
Culture
‘Everybody’ Has Something to Say About Logic
Logic is an adept lyricist known for speedy, tongue-twisting flows, and yet much of the public narrative about the rapper fixates on the way he looks.
Marcus J. Moore
George Saunders’s Lincoln
The novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ examines the Civil War as the root of America’s violent past—and as a possible source of empathy that might release us from it.
Jon Baskin
Doesn’t Every Political Resistance Need a Soundtrack?
In their efforts to protest Trump’s ascension as soon as possible, more than one artist has recast an existing song with lyrics applicable to the current crisis.
David HajduWatch and Listen
Watch: “The Prisoner Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires”
“The Prisoner Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires”
May 8, 2017
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
Watch: Clean In: How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union—And Won
A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg.
March 8, 2017
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