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Enforcing Eviction

As a national housing crisis approaches, the police side with property against people.

Abigail Higgins and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Election 2020

Milwaukee Has a Lot to Teach Joe Biden and the Democrats

Representative Gwen Moore spoke of a “city where blood was shed for labor rights, where a fugitive slave was freed from prison, where women’s right to vote was first ratified.”

John Nichols
Media Analysis

During the Conventions, the Media Needs to Be Treating Climate Like the Emergency It Is

It’s not an issue to be discussed. It’s a crisis.

Mark Hertsgaard
Education

This Is What Dystopia Looks Like

Anticipating back-to-school, a teacher reflects on days past and the endless limbo of remote learning.

Aaron Talley
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Politics

Dissenting Delegates Send a Medicare for All Message to Joe Biden

Biden is nominated, but even some of his own delegates say that he should embrace a single-payer response to America’s health care crisis.

John Nichols

The First Night of the DNC Felt Like a Really Brutal Doctor’s Appointment

While the Democrats worked overtime to convey how sick the country is, they forgot to mention how they’re going to save us.

Elie Mystal

The Moral Power of Michelle Obama’s Anti-Politics

The former first lady makes the personal case against Donald Trump.

Jeet Heer

Culture

Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

Robert Greene II

Who Gets to Tell the Story of Wuhan’s Lockdown?

On Fang Fang’s quarantine journal and the political limits of the diary.

Jaime Chu

What Populism Is and Is Not

Thomas Frank’s history of anti-populism helps clarify one of the most contested terms in politics. 

Edward Burmila

World

The Cost of ‘Singapore Inc.’? A Coronavirus Outbreak Among Migrants.

Singapore must stop treating workers as digits in a game of economic growth.

Kirsten Han

I Lost My Son in a Hail of Bullets at an Israeli Checkpoint

Israeli soldiers shot to kill after Ahmad's car crashed into a checkpoint. They insist he did it on purpose but have refused to do a real investigation. 

Najah Erekat

Swelling Protests in Belarus Signal a Possible Revolution of Love

The women’s solidarity protests have been in the streets since the August 9 election demanding honest elections and condemning police violence and torture.

Nasta Zakharevich

Watch and Listen

View: Hong Kong’s Protesters Are Writing Their ‘Last Letters’

They fear being arrested or disappeared, and are not prepared to be silenced without a fight.

August 3, 2020

View: Tear Down the Monuments, Bring Our Cities to Life

In Richmond, the sites of former monuments to the Confederacy have become lively spaces for activism and memorializing those lost to police violence.

July 13, 2020

View: Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected

I’m a guest in the Black Lives Matter movement, and making images is how I show my support.

June 29, 2020

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