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Republicans Won’t Convict Trump—Because They Won’t Convict Themselves

The Republican senators who are being asked to judge Trump are guilty of the very same high crime for which the former president has been impeached.

Elie Mystal

Asia

Myanmar’s Army of Darkness

The military was never interested in peace or a democratic transition—and neither was Aung San Suu Kyi.

David Scott Mathieson
Executive Branch

If Impeachment Managers Want Witnesses to Trump’s High Crimes, Start With Lindsey Graham

The senator’s on-the-record statements after the January 6 attack on the Capitol confirm that he knows Trump is guilty of dereliction of duty.

John Nichols
Climate Change

Come Dream With Me: Environmental Justice, Colorized, 2021

Because my generation’s dreams cannot be deferred or denied any longer.

Nikayla Jefferson
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the second impeachment

If Republicans Have a Conscience, They’ll Convict Trump. Most Don’t.

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

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

How Trump Incited an Insurrection

John Nichols on impeachment, plus Steve Phillips on turning Texas blue.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Politics

Democrats Have Inherited a Broken Senate. Can They Make It Work?

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has his work cut out for him. Here are four ways he could make the Senate work.

John Nichols

Larry Summers Is Still Worth Ignoring

Shut out of power, the onetime wunderkind tries to grab the spotlight with an attention-getting argument.

Jeet Heer

Fox News Should Pay for the Lies and Slander It Helped Promote

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

World

In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modi’s Propaganda Machine

The government is using a pliant media and its social-media warriors to paint protesting farmers as secessionists.

Ullekh N.P.

The Suffering Underclass of War-Torn Yemen

“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

Haiti: Too Many Presidents, Too Little of Everything Else

President Jovenel Moïse’s claims that his opponents were plotting a coup was a joke—but his counter-coup is deadly serious.

Amy Wilentz

Culture

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

Perverse and Unfair: The Radical Steps to Fix the Housing Crisis

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

Can a Novel Really Capture the Spirit of the Internet?

Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and the limits of literary fiction’s obsession with life online.

David Schurman Wallace

Watch and Listen

Listen: What Does the Head of the NFL Player’s Union Think About the Super Bowl?

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

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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