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Alexei Navalny Grows More Powerful Every Time Putin Talks About Him

One day we may look back on January 2021 as the beginning of the end of Putin’s reign.

Vadim Nikitin

Politics

Biden’s Executive Orders Are Essential to Restoring Democracy

In the face of GOP attacks on his legitimacy, it’s crucial for Joe Biden to demonstrate who is actually president.

Jeet Heer
Technology

These Machines Won’t Kill Fascism: Toward a Militant Progressive Vision for Tech

The left must vie for control over the algorithms, data, and infrastructure that shape our lives.

Nantina Vgontzas and Meredith Whittaker
Public Schools

Dead Teachers Can’t Teach

As a new Covid-19 variant takes hold, Tennessee lawmakers are trying to force teachers and students back into the classroom.

Luis Feliz Leon
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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

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

This Is Why Texas Is the Next Georgia

The same factors that were critical to success in Georgia exist in Texas.

Steve Phillips

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 RĂ­os

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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