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What’s Keeping the Vaccine From Getting to Those Who Need it Most?

It’s not just a medical question; it’s a political issue.

Natalie Shure

Congress

I Don’t Just Want Trump Impeached. I Want Him Jailed.

A conviction in the Senate is the least we should demand. Trump should be indicted and stand trial before citizens empaneled to uphold the rule of law.

Elie Mystal
Politics

AOC’s Stirring Call to Reject Insurrection Amnesia

Going against Republicans, the media, and some on the left, the New York representative makes the case for accountability.

Jeet Heer
Climate Change

Will We Ever Fully Understand Humans’ Impact on Nature?

A conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert about her new book, efforts to “control the control of nature,” and how the climate beat has changed. 

Naomi Elias
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Politics

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

Biden Doesn’t Need and Shouldn’t Want the Votes of the Sedition Caucus or the Obstructionists

The presidents and the Democrats have a mandate to govern.

John Nichols

Biden Should Reject the Latest GOP Bipartisan Fantasy

A cynical Republican push for a bipartisan stimulus bill makes clear why Democrats have to go it alone.

Jeet Heer

World

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

Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever

Tea pluckers say the household-goods giant failed to protect them from brutal and foreseeable attacks.

Maria Hengeveld

Averting a Cold War With China Takes On Greater Urgency

The United States and China must be encouraged to find common interests—slowing climate change and preventing future pandemics—rather than reasons for aggression.

Michael T. Klare

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

The Body, the State, the Border: On Cristina Rivera Garza

Her fiction and essays illuminates how the language of violence is inherent to the disaster neoliberalism wrought in Mexico.

Claire Mullen

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

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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