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Why Are Mayors Inviting Trump’s Federal Agents Into Their Cities?

The Trump administration’s “anti-crime,” anti-cities agenda goes beyond sending DHS agents to Portland, and some mayors are fine with that.

Alex S. Vitale

Election 2020

Donald Trump Wants a Fight on the Green New Deal. So Do We.

It’s not just the right thing to do. Climate action is a winning issue for Democrats—and a point of vulnerability for Trump.

Varshini Prakash and John Podesta
Politics

Can Trump Win in November by Reviving Willie Horton?

The president is betting his reelection on a racist demonization of urban America.

Jeet Heer
Class

Can We Attend a Big Fat Covid Wedding?

Another reader feels class resentment toward a friend riding out the pandemic at his country home.

Liza Featherstone
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Politics

Why Portland Became the Test Case for Trump’s Secret Police

Right-wing groups and media laid the groundwork for federal intervention long before this summer’s protests.

Zoë Carpenter

How to Steal an Election

A lesson in purging the rolls, blocking registration, and other manipulation tactics.

Ted Rall and Greg Palast

Trump Is Flailing, and the Country Is Paying the Price

Desperate to distract from his own failures, he’s lashing out at China and cities run by Democrats.

Sasha Abramsky

World

In Quarantine, on the Plains of Colombia

A photographer captures a child’s fears and hopes on a ranch on the Llanos.

Juanita Escobar, The Nation and Magnum Foundation

Covid-19 Has Put Algeria’s Peaceful Revolution on Hold

The past year’s protests have been on a scale not seen in over three decades. But now, the streets are empty.

Abdo Shanan, The Nation and Magnum Foundation

Canada’s Nazi Monuments

Why does Canada have not one but several memorials to Nazi collaborators? And why, when statues are toppling all over the world, have Canadian Jewish groups remained silent?

Lev Golinkin

Culture

Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s Alternative Progressive Vision

We spoke to the Harvard law professor and philosopher about his incisive articulation of a different kind of progressivism.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Emotional Science Project’

Flitting between the intimate and the impersonal, the poet’s photographic project Memory is a hallmark of American conceptualism.

Tausif Noor

How an Artist’s Diary Can Teach Us New Ways of Seeing

Rosemary Mayer’s journal from 1971 illuminates not just her work but also how a creative person makes sense of a life.

Thea Ballard

Watch and Listen

Listen: To Fight the Coronavirus We Need a Massive Campaign of Disruption

Gregg Gonsalves on Covid-19, plus Meagan Day on the Eviction Crisis

July 16, 2020

Listen: NBA at the Breaking Point

NBA scribe Michael Lee joins the show to talk about the NBA restart and Stephen Jackson’s comments.

July 14, 2020

View: Making George Floyd’s Life Matter

As the people of Minneapolis grieve the loss of one of their own, they’re also fighting for a future free of police brutality.

June 8, 2020

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