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Mapping the Trump Meridian in Texas

Just five years after calling Mexican immigrants drug dealers, criminals, and rapists, Trump collected over 30 percent of the vote in every Texas county along the border.

Jaime Garcia and Rick TreviƱo

Law

Hey, Prosecutors, Itā€™s Your Turn to Try to Hold the Mobster Ex-President Accountable

In fact, it would be a clear demonstration of favoritism if former president Trump were not investigated by the justice system.

Sasha Abramsky
Photography

The Unknown Radicals of Black Photography

A recent exhibition on the Kamoinge Workshop tells the story of a group of photographers who explored the artistic and political potential of the medium to its fullest.

Barry Schwabsky
Labor Organizing

Karen Lewis Built a Proudly Militant Movement for Public Education

ā€œGreat schools with great teachers is the most important civil right of our generation,ā€ she boldly declared. And she built a movement of believers in that vision.

John Nichols
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the second impeachment

Trumpā€™s Lawyers Were Terribleā€”but Will It Matter?

Almost. Heā€™ll probably be acquitted anyway, but Republicans are going to pay for this mess.

Joan Walsh

To Republican Senators, Donald Trump Is Still the Boogeyman

Most GOP senators are cowards. But they have good reason to worry about their personal safety and their political future.

Jeet Heer

If Impeachment Managers Want Witnesses to Trumpā€™s High Crimes, Start With Lindsey Graham

The senatorā€™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

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

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 Smartmaticā€”and itā€™s prepared to play ruthless legal hardball to win.

Elie Mystal

Introducing My New Column: ā€˜From the Left Coastā€™

Iā€™ll be exploring developments in the Pacific Coast states as well as, from time to time, the blue and purple states of the interior Southwest.

Sasha Abramsky

World

In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modiā€™s Propaganda Machine

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

Ullekh N.P.

Myanmarā€™s Army of Darkness

The military was never interested in peace or a democratic transitionā€”and neither was Aung San Suu Kyi.

David Scott Mathieson

Haiti: Too Many Presidents, Too Little of Everything Else

President Jovenel MoĆÆseā€™s claims that his opponents were plotting a coup was a jokeā€”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

ā€˜Minariā€™ Is a Landmark for Asian American Cinema

Lee Isaac Chungā€™s poignant immigrant drama is the kind of film that can be felt with all five senses. 

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Watch and Listen

Listen: What Does the Head of the NFL Playerā€™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 outspokenā€”about inequality, assimilation, racism, and moreā€”than those that came before.

December 22, 2020
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