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It’s the Economic Precarity, Stupid

Economic inequality is a symptom of a broader problem that, if left unaddressed, will trigger more radicalization.

Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback

Immigration Policy

Trump Judges Are Already Thwarting Biden’s Agenda

A Trump appointee in Texas has put a hold on Biden’s deportation “pause�—an example that other GOP judges are sure to follow.

Elie Mystal
Executive Branch

Rand Paul Is a Monarchist—and Donald Trump Is His King

To defend his sovereign from accountability, the Kentucky senator is peddling the GOP’s latest Big Lie.

John Nichols
Inequality

The Trump Administration Gutted the EEOC

An inside account of how Janet Dhillon has hollowed out America’s only workplace civil rights watchdog.

Bryce Covert
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Politics

Are We Witnessing the Emergence of a New ‘Lost Cause’?

Just as after the Civil War, desperate attempts to preserve white supremacy are being camouflaged as a valorous fight for a noble end.

Kali Holloway

It’s Still Trump’s Party—GOP Can’t Cry Even if They Want To

Democrats need to keep reminding voters that the Republicans can’t give up on Trump.

Jeet Heer

Biden’s Buddy Tom Vilsack Is No Friend to Farmers

Confirming him as secretary of agriculture adds insult to the Democratic Party’s long record of malign neglect toward rural Americans.

Emily Berch

Culture

The Worldmaking of N.K. Jemisin

Through her speculative fiction, Jemisin builds worlds and probes them—exploring who they work for and how.

Stephen Kearse

Charles Mills Thinks Liberalism Still Has a Chance

A wide-ranging conversation with the philosopher on the white supremacist roots of liberal thought, Biden’s victory, and Trumpism without Trump.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Luca Guadagnino’s Meditation on Youth

His HBO series We Are Who We Are looks at teenagehood less as a time in one’s life than as a mindset one inhabits.

Erin Schwartz

World

Biden Should Think Big in the Middle East

We must address the interconnected conflicts there as the equivalent of a regional/world war. That requires an international conference under UN auspices.

James Zogby

Argentina’s Decades-Long Fight to Legalize Abortion Ends in Victory

The campaign to legalize abortion began sometime in the late 1970s, when the “grandmothers� of the green wave were living in exile across Europe.

Cecilia Nowell

Women in Mexico Reckon With the High Cost of Migration

With husbands dying—from Covid-19, dangerous jobs, and more—in the US, many Mexican women are wondering whether migration is worth it anymore.

Lorena Ríos

Watch and Listen

Listen: Taking a Trip With Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee

The baseball legend joins the show to talk about his new book and his unique life.

January 26, 2021

View: Tribal Territories Have the Right to Protect Their People Against the Pandemic

South Dakota has resisted shutting down in the face of Covid-19. The Cheyenne River Reservation is taking matters into its own hands.

December 15, 2020

View: The Latinx Future Will Not Look Like the Latinx Past

My generation is more outspoken—about inequality, assimilation, racism, and more—than those that came before.

December 22, 2020
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