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White Vigilantes and Black Protest: John Nichols on Kyle Rittenhouse; Eric Foner on Housing
We’re still thinking about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict in Kenosha, where Republicans have been celebrating the “not guilty” verdict in the trial of …
4 years, 6 months ago
Why Republicans Want to Ban the 1619 Project: Martha Jones, plus Gregory Boyle on gangs
Republicans continue to work to ban teaching about Black Americans’ place in our history – their legislation, proposed in 27 states, would prohibit t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Trump Will be a Lousy Candidate in 2024: John Nichols, plus Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell
The Democrats need to do big things fast if they want to have a chance of winning in 2022 and 2024. John Nichols says that Trump will be a “lousy can…
4 years, 6 months ago
Cancel Bail Debt, Abolish Student Debt: Astra Taylor; plus Adam Shatz on John Coltrane
The Debt Collective has a new project: Cancelling probation debt of formerly incarcerated people. They’re actually doing it, for tens of thousands of…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Politics of Kidnapping in Haiti: Amy Wilentz; plus Dave Zirin on ‘The Kaepernick Effect”
Who really runs Haiti—the government, or the gangs? The kidnappings suggest it’s the gangs – and the leader of the gang that kidnapped 16 Americans h…
4 years, 7 months ago
How Dems Can Turn Texas Blue John Nichols on politics, plus Adam Shatz on Richard Wright
A recent poll found that only 42 per cent of registered voters in Texas say Republican Governor Gregg Abbott deserves to be re-elected in 2022. Biden…
4 years, 7 months ago
Winning in 2022: John Nichols, plus Melina Abdullah on the LAPD and Ray Suarez on “Going for Broke”
Some pundits say the only way Democrats can hold the House and Senate in 2022 is by appealing to swing voters in Republican states by talking about e…
4 years, 7 months ago
America’s Lunatics: Katha Pollitt; plus John Powers on Percival Everett’s Emmett Till novel
Are we a nation of lunatics? Katha Pollitt has been thinking about that—about the millions of people who say that Satan-worshipping pedophiles contro…
4 years, 7 months ago
Controlling the Police: What is to be Done? Erwin Chemerinsky, plus Eyal Press on Dirty Work
Many proposals to reform the police were made after the Black Lives Matter protests of last summer the largest protest movement in American history. …
4 years, 8 months ago
Biden’s Disastrous Deportation of Haitians: Amy Wilentz; plus Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce on Occupy Wall Street
Joe Biden is deporting 15,000 Haitian refugees who crossed the border at Del Rio, Texas, to a country ravaged by assassination, earthquake, poverty, …
4 years, 8 months ago