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3 weeks ago
Saree Makdisi on Israelis and Palestinians; Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Battle over Black Studies
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1 month ago
The Constitutional Solution to the Debt Limit Crisis, plus Victor Navasky Remembered
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2 months ago
Abortion rights battles return in the 2023 elections; plus wages at Walmart
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2 months ago
Nelson Lichtenstein's Post-Mortem on the UC Strike and Andrew Bacevich on America’s “Very Long War”
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2 months ago
Nelson Lichtenstein: After the Historic UC Strike; plus Andrew Bacevich on America’s “Very Long War”
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2 months ago
Best of 2022: Elie Mystal on the Constitution, plus Kelly Lytle Hernández on “Bad Mexicans”
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3 months ago
UC Strike Settlement? Nelson Lichtenstein; plus Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s Xmas Album
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3 months ago
Joan Walsh on the Georgia runoff and Nelson Lichtenstein on the UC strike
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4 months ago
The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the U. of Calif., and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution
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4 months ago
Immigrants Can Work Jobs at the University of California and Latinos Are Fighting Toxic Pollution
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4 months ago
The Nation and the Midterms: D.D. Guttenplan, Elie Mystal, Joan Walsh, John Nichols, and Chris Lehmann
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4 months ago
How We Win the Midterms: Steve Phillips; plus Black Landowners in North Carolina: Cameron Oglesby
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5 months ago
Chris Lehmann on Republican Plans for 2023, plus Adam Hochschild on Repression in WWI America
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5 months ago
Can the Democrats hold the Senate? John Nichols; Plus David Nasaw on Ken Burns's "Holocaust"
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6 months ago
Bhaskar Sunkara: Bernie in 2024? plus Chris Lehmann on the Brooks Brothers Riot
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6 months ago
Sarah Posner on the Conservative Takeover of the Southern Baptists, plus Amy Wilentz on Jared
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6 months ago
Amy Littlefield on How Abortion Rights Triumphed in Kansas, plus Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered
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7 months ago
Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Primaries and White Supremacy in Southern California
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7 months ago
Pramila Jayapal, from Banker to Organizer, plus Eric Foner on the Right to Vote
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7 months ago
Katha Pollitt on Advice for Men and J. Hoberman on Film in the Age of Reagan
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8 months ago
Daniel Squadron on How Trump’s Fake Electors Scheme Could Become Law, plus Amy Wilentz on Ivana
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8 months ago
David Cole on What To Do About the Supreme Court, and Sarah Posner on School Prayer
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9 months ago
Sarah Posner on White Evangelicals and the Jan. 6 Insurrection, plus Joan Walsh on Sex Ed
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9 months ago
John Nichols on Crime and the Democrats, plus Sarah Posner on Sex and the Southern Baptists
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9 months ago
Katha Pollitt on How to Protect Abortion Rights and Kelly Lytle Hernandez on “Bad Mexicans”
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10 months ago
John Nichols on Progressives in the Primaries, plus Lynn Garafola on 'La Nijinska'
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10 months ago
Amy Littlefield on the fight for Abortion Rights, plus Chesa Boudin on Progressive Prosecutors
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10 months ago
Rebecca Solnit on How People Change and Why We Care; plus Eric Foner on 1776 and 2022
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