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Talking with Poor People about Poverty: Mia Birdsong

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Democratic Socialism American Style: Kate Aronoff and Michael Kazin

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Henry Louis Gates: American Slavery and American Families

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Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump: Jelani Cobb

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"We have to change the calculus of what is possible": Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal

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The Nation's Progressive Honor Roll for 2019: John Nichols

207

India is on Fire with Protest: Arundhati Roy

208

Why Trump Picked Kavanaugh: Ruth Marcus

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Katha Pollitt: The Problem with Fetal Personhood

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Americans on Strike: Bryce Covert

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Trump's Pardons for War Crimes: Jeet Heer

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Deporting 'Undesirables': Now, and a Hundred Years Ago: Adam Hochschild

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Scorsese's 'The Irishman'—and Jimmy Hoffa: John Powers

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Rick Perlstein: Nixon's Impeachment--and Trump's

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Eric Foner: The Legacy of Slavery in the Era of Trump

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Joe Biden: An Anti-Endorsement--D.D. Guttenplan

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Thom Hartmann: What To Do About the Supreme Court

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The Socialism We Need: Paul Adler

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John le Carré's 'Brexit Book': John Powers

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Haiti on the Brink: Amy Wilentz

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Senate Republicans: What would it take to get 20 to vote to convict Trump? Elie Mystal

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Japan is Really Different: Pico Iyer

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Ilhan Omar: A Report from Minneapolis--David Perry

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The Political Promise of the Abortion Pill: Katha Pollitt

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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas: Corey Robin

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Ivanka and Impeachment: Amy Wilentz

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Republicans and Impeachment--Lessons from the Nixon years: Jeet Heer

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Among The Women of ISIS: Azadeh Moaveni

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Afghanistan Votes--but When will the War End? Andrew Bacevich

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The Roots of the Right to Vote: Eric Foner

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What the Workers Want in the GM Strike: Jane McAlevey

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Trump--The Signal and the Noise: Sasha Abramsky

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Edward Snowden: The Early Days of Internet Freedom

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Almost All the Bad Things Trump Did This Summer: Katha Pollitt

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Why All Those Republicans are Quitting Congress: John Nichols

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Will Indivisible Endorse one of the Democrats in the Primary? Joan Walsh

237

Who is "Un-American?" David Maraniss on HUAC

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From Reagan to Trump in the Movies: J. Hoberman

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White Nationalism and the White House, from Obama to Trump: John Nichols

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Jeffrey Epstein and His Friends: Katha Pollitt

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Take It to the Streets, Again! Katha Pollitt

242

Could the Green New Deal Be This Generation's Moon Shot? D.D. Guttenplan

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Was Al Franken Railroaded? Jeet Heer

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Remembering Paul Krassner

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Mars Travel and Zillionaires: Katha Pollitt

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Jared's Mideast Peace "Plan": Amy Wilentz

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Gay Liberation Since Stonewall: Martin Duberman on What We Have Lost

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Joe Biden and his "Friends": Jeet Heer

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Remembering Our Unending Mideast Wars: Andrew Bacevich

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Bernie and Socialism: John Nichols

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The GOP Attacks Voting Rights in Florida: Sasha Abramsky

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Rashida Tlaib with John Nichols: "Why can't we move this?"

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Katha Pollitt: Abortion and Men

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Why Hasn't Joe Biden Signed the Indivisible Pledge to Support the Democratic Winner? Ezra Levin

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Extraditing Julian Assange: for Rape in Sweden, yes; for Espionage in the US, No: Bruce Shaprio

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The Politics of Climate Change: Alyssa Battistoni

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Paying for Medicare for All: Robert Pollin

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Justin Amash, Republican, and Ilhan Omar, Democrat: John Nichols

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1,000 Redactions from the Mueller Report: Karen Greenberg

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'The Other Americans': Laila Lalami on her New Novel

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Bowe Bergdahl and the Disasters of the Afghan War: Michael Ames

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The Other Notre Dame Cathedral in Ruins: Haiti's--Amy Wilentz

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Climate and Commerce: Ben Ehrenreich

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Carey McWilliams: American prophet and editor of The Nation

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Impeachment: Congress's Duty is Clear: Joshua Holland

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Eric Hobsbawm, Marxist Historian: Richard J. Evans

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Our Toxic Plastics Boom: Zoe Carpenter

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Stephen Miller: What Happened? Laurie Winer

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Jared Kusher: No Indictment--Amy Wilentz

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Reconstruction after the Civil War: The World's First Interracial Democracy--Eric Foner

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The Trouble with Beto: Harold Meyerson

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Trump's Border Wall: The Symbol and the Myth--Greg Grandin

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What Would It Be Like If Trump Got His Way with His Opponents? Adam Hochschild

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The Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund: Rebecca Grant

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Work Requirements for Medicaid: Bryce Covert

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Where Women are Winning--and Losing: Katha Pollitt

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Southern Democrats, Past and Future: Michael Kazin

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Impeach Trump? Sean Wilentz: Lessons from the Clinton Impeachment

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Harm Reduction and the Opioid Epidemic: Maia Szalavitz

280

The Movement Politics We Need: Michael Walzer

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Elizabeth Warren's Battles, Past and Future: George Zornick

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Taking Trump and his 'National Emergency' to Court: Dahlia Lithwick

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California vs. Trump: Manuel Pastor

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Peace in Afghanistan? Antony Loewenstein

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Bernie's Foreign Policy: David Klion

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The Cruelty of Trump's Attack on Temporary Protected Status: Sasha Abramsky

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Trump, climate change, and species extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert

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Politics after the Shutdown: Harold Meyerson

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How the Progressive Caucus will Fight Trump: Joan Walsh

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Was the Constitution a pro-slavery document? Sean Wilentz

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What the Teachers Strike Won in LA: Sarah Jaffe

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The LA Teachers Strike--What Teachers Want: Pedro Noguera

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The Left needs more than good ideas: Kate Aronoff

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Working at an Amazon Warehouse Over the Holidays: Alex Press

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Russian social-media involvement in US politics was small and amateurish: Aaron Maté

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Barbara Ehrenreich: ‘Killing ourselves to live longer.’

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Remembering Amos Oz: a 2004 Interview on Israelis and Palestinians

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Is Trump Crazy? Amy Wilentz

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Climate Change is Not Just an Environmental Issue: Bill McKibben

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Is Obamcare Unconstitutional? Erwin Chemerinsky