Jimmy Carter Calls for Single Payer
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Donald Trump’s Inner Circle Is Quickly Evaporating
His shrinking list of trusted advisers starts and ends with family and a few hard-core loyalists.
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How Are We Going to Survive the Next 42 Months of Trump?
Many progressives are depressed and angry. But there are also glimmers of hope.
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World
Is Morocco Headed Toward Insurrection?
The northeastern Rif, Berber heartland and site of the 1920s Rif Republic, is on fire—and the protests are spreading.
Hisham Aidi
Britain Is in the Grip of Its Most Turbulent Political Time in More Than 30 Years
Can a strong left rise from the chaos of Brexit, austerity, and the 2017 election?
John Harris
Why Don’t Internationalists Care About Yemen?
Saudi-led airstrikes are creating hundreds of Guernicas a month in northern Yemen.
Juan ColeCulture
A Billionaires’ Republic
American democracy has always been threatened by concentrations of wealth as much as those of power.
Jedediah Purdy
Mal Waldron’s Ecstatic Minimalism
The jazz pianist’s style was simple, but the themes that gave shape to his music were not.
Adam Shatz
The Impending Crisis
Omar El-Akkad’s debut novel imagines a future America riven by civil war.
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