Bernie Sanders Bets on Ben Jealous
With his endorsements of candidates like Jealous, Sanders is framing the next American politics.
John NicholsDemocrats
Hey, Democratic Candidates: Pro-Choice Women Are Your Base
Running an anti-choice candidate might pick up a few Republican votes—at the expense of turning off the party’s loyal voters.
Katha PollittHealth Care
Want National Health Insurance? Dump the Term ‘Single Payer’—and ‘Medicare for All’ Too
“Medicare for all” is better than “single payer,” but better yet is “guaranteed lifetime coverage for all.”
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Nuclear Bunkers Won’t Protect You From What’s Happening in the White House
It’s time to stop hiding from the crises we’ve created.
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There Is One Federal Agency That Is Still Doing Its Job
Picking a fight with Trump, Richard Cordray and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are making it easier to sue banks.
Helaine Olen
Meet the Vote Suppressors and Conspiracy Theorists on Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Commission
Forty-eight states have refused to fully comply with the commission’s request for voter data, but the order has already sown chaos at state election offices.
Ari Berman
This Chicago Politician Is Showing How to Govern From the Left
In 2015, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa became the city’s youngest alderman. Then he really began breaking ground.
D.D. GuttenplanNation Voices
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American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression
The same Republicans who benefited from Russian hacking in the 2016 election have been suppressing the vote for years.
Ari BermanIn September 2010, the District of Columbia unveiled a pilot project to enable overseas residents and people serving in the military to vote over the Internet, and invited users to test the system. Within 36 hours, University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman and his team were able to… Continue Reading >
Culture
The Presence of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Paintings
Though she routinely paints human figures, it’s better to understand her work as abstract art.
Ratik Asokan
A Billionaires’ Republic
American democracy has always been threatened by concentrations of wealth as much as those of power.
Jedediah Purdy
Martin Luther’s Revolution
The Protestant Reformation transformed not just Christianity but also our political and economic worlds.
Elizabeth BruenigWatch and Listen
Watch: Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political, and environmental commons.
June 2, 2017
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
Listen: Naomi Klein: We’re All in Trump’s Reality Show Now
Plus: Amy Wilentz on Jared Kushner and Al Franken on Fox News.
July 6, 2017
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