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The controversy over the anthem shows, yet again, that there is nothing “united” about these United States.
Dave Zirin
The media giant is facing a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit from voting machine maker Smartmatic—and it’s prepared to play ruthless legal hardball to win.
Elie Mystal
John Nichols on impeachment, plus Steve Phillips on turning Texas blue.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Democrats showed how Trump sicced his mob on Mike Pence and Republicans. Does the GOP care? It didn’t seem like it yesterday, but that could change.
Joan Walsh
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Lee Isaac Chung’s poignant immigrant drama is the kind of film that can be felt with all five senses.
the second impeachment
Senate Republicans may not permit accountability. But the lead impeachment manager’s argument leaves no doubt how history will judge Trump.
John Nichols
Democrats showed how Trump sicced his mob on Mike Pence and Republicans. Does the GOP care? It didn’t seem like it yesterday, but that could change.
Joan Walsh
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
Changes in IP have done far more than tax cuts to increase inequality—and US protection of IP could lead to a cold war with China.
Dean Baker
Shut out of power, the onetime wunderkind tries to grab the spotlight with an attention-getting argument.
Jeet Heer
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has his work cut out for him. Here are four ways he could make the Senate work.
John Nichols
The administration’s pivot to a values-based foreign policy promises an overdue sharpening of America’s response to China’s rights abuses.
Andrew McCormick
The government is using a pliant media and its social-media warriors to paint protesting farmers as secessionists.
Ullekh N.P.
“I feel the pain of my homeland as they do,” he said. “There’s no difference between us and them. Our only difference is the color of our skin.”
Nicolas Niarchos
Her fiction and essays illuminates how the language of violence is inherent to the disaster neoliberalism wrought in Mexico.
Claire Mullen
On the history of the single-family home in America, alternative modes of housing, and what it will take to fix the housing market.
Marianela D’Aprile
Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and the limits of literary fiction’s obsession with life online.
David Schurman Wallace
Watch and Listen
NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith joins the show to talk about the upcoming Super Bowl and what the union has been up to during the global pandemic.
February 6, 2021
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
My generation is more outspoken—about inequality, assimilation, racism, and more—than those that came before.
December 22, 2020
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