What Films to See Over the Holidays
The spectacle of Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, the anti-Trump propaganda of Steven Spielberg’s The Post, an inexplicable period melodrama by Paul Thomas Anderson, and more.
Stuart KlawansActivism
Keep the Fight Against Trump Alive With a Generous Donation This Holiday Season
These organizations are fighting the pernicious effects of his administration. Now’s the time to give them a boost.
Katha PollittBooks & the Arts
The Marvel of Cécile McLorin Salvant
How wonderful, and strange, that a jazz singer can achieve such stardom nowadays.
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Marcus Raskin’s Resurgent and Expansive Citizenship
The former Kennedy aide, whose radical democratic faith defined progressive activism and ideas across six decades, has died at 83.
John Nichols
December 25, 2017 Political Figures
White Christmas
December 24, 2017 Class
A Scrooge Walks Among Us
December 22, 2017 Activism
All They Want for Christmas Is a Limit on Solitary Confinement
December 22, 2017 Society
The Whiteness of Trump’s Working-Class Supporters: Gary Younge
December 22, 2017 Political Figures
The Trump Who Stole
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How Do Politicians Get Away With Cutting Taxes for the Rich?
Americans don’t want this tax bill, yet it’s likely to pass.
Sean McElwee and Spencer Piston
Since Trump’s Victory, Democratic Socialists of America Has Become a Budding Political Force
Why an army of young people is joining DSA.
Anna Heyward
The GOP Tax Bill and the Crisis of American Democracy
The country is ruled by oligarchs and their enablers.
Richard KimFeature
The 2017 Progressive Honor Roll
Resistance was the watchword this year. These honorees not only refused to go backward; they challenged old orthodoxies.
John Nichols“Resistance” was the watchword for 2017. Resistance not just to Donald Trump, but to a status quo that gave our most powerful bully pulpit to an actual bully. Progressives not only refused to go backward in 2017; they demanded a new conversation that challenged old orthodoxies. The hashtag #MeToo became...
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Culture
The Second Klan
Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.
Kevin M. Kruse
What Revolution?
Enzo Traverso’s new book offers us a guide to the left that the 20th century left behind.
J. Hoberman
The Candle of Memory
Anne Applebaum's new history of the Ukrainian famine illustrates the perils of using the past in service of today's politics.
Sophie PinkhamOpp-Art: Dispatches from the resistance
Watch and Listen
Listen: The Washington Redhawks Culture Jam
Jacqueline Keeler joins the show to talk native mascotry.
December 19, 2017
View: The Borderlands’ Human Stain
Photographs that capture the traces of violence that have plagued the US-Mexico border for generations.
July 27, 2017
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