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Is it ‘Treason’ Not to Clap for the President? Joan Walsh, plus Nomi Prins on Financial Deregulation and Ann Jones on Norwegians

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The Trouble With Forensics: Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth

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The Trouble with Teleprompter Trump's State of the Union: Harold Meyerson; plus Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth on Phony Forensics

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Women Show How to Run—And Win—Against Trump’s GOP: John Nichols, plus Alfred McCoy on Fortress America and the Rev. William Barber on White Nationalism

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Fortress America Is Crumbling: Alfred McCoy

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White Nationalism, Patriotism, and Donald Trump: The Rev. William Barber

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Secrets of the Trump-Russia Dossier: Bob Dreyfuss

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Donald Trump, the "Wounded Monster": David Bromwich

409

How Trump Brought Feminism Back With a Vengeance: Katha Pollitt; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Russiagate and David Bromwich on Trump’s Ruling Passions

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California Fights Back Against Trump: Harold Meyerson

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Father Greg Boyle: The Former Gang Members of LA's Homeboy Industries

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Oprah for President? John Nichols; plus Harold Meyerson on Trump vs. California and Father Greg Boyle on Working with Ex-Gang Members

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The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America: Nancy MacLean

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Fred Trump and the KKK of the 1920s: Linda Gordon, plus Nancy MacLean on the Roots of the Radical Right

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The Resistance in 2017: John Nichols with Our Progressive Honor Roll

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From Bill O’Reilly to Al Franken: Katha Pollitt on #MeToo in 2017; plus John Nichols on The Resistance in 2017 and Howell Raines on Alabama's Amazing Year

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Alabama's Remarkable Political Year: Howell Raines

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Ivana’s Memoir “Raising Trump”: “A sort of ‘Real Housewives of Trump Tower’”

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“Whiteness Is All They’ve Got”: Gary Younge on Trump’s Working Class Supporters; Plus D.D. Guttenplan on Jackson, Miss., and Amy Wilentz on Ivana

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“The Most Radical City on the Planet”: Chokwe Lumumba's Jackson, Mississippi

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The Fight for Net Neutrality: John Nichols

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Victory in Alabama: How Doug Jones Won—Howell Raines. Plus Joan Walsh on #MeToo after Al Franken and John Nichols on Net Neutrality

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The #MeToo Movement After Al Franken: Joan Walsh

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Why Robert Mueller Is Going After Deutsche Bank Records of Trump's Associates: Bob Dreyfuss

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How the Democrats Can Defeat Roy Moore in Alabama: Howell Raines on Doug Jones, plus Bob Dreyfuss on Russigate and Gary Younge on American Nazis

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Two Ways to Interview a Nazi: Gary Younge

427

The Trouble with Anti-Trump Republicans: Rick Perlstein

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What Will It Take for the GOP to Pass its Terrible Tax Bill? George Zornick on Senate politics, plus Joan Walsh on sexual harassment in Washington and Rick Perlstein on Republicans against Trump

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Sexual Harassment in Washington: Joan Walsh

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The 2016 Election Was Bad, But 1968 Was Worse: Lawrence O’Donnell

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The Resistance to Trump, Year One: David Cole; plus Lawrence O’Donnell on 1968 and Steven Hahn on ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

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The Trouble with ‘Hillbilly Elegy’: Steven Hahn

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Can the Democrats Beat Roy Moore in Alabama? Howell Raines; plus Adam Shatz on Trump and the Bomb, and Corey Robin on Trump's Reactionary Mind

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Trump and the Bomb: Adam Shatz

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The Reactionary Mind of Donald Trump: Corey Robin

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How the GOP Tax Bill May Fail: George Zornick

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The Trouble with Tipping: Danny Meyer

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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Russia, Trump, and the Democrats; plus George Zornick on the GOP Tax Bill and Danny Meyer on the Trouble with Tipping

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Michelle Goldberg: Republicans and Trump, After the Indictments; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Mueller at Work, and Tony Schwartz on Trump

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The Manafort Indictments are Only the Beginning: Bob Dreyfuss

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Tony Schwartz: Trump’s Psychology—and Our Future

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The Trouble with Cheap Food: Raj Patel

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Is Trump Crazy? Would Pence be Worse? Jane Mayer on Pence, and Amy Wilentz on Trump; plus Raj Patel on Cheap Food

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Is Trump Crazy? Amy Wilentz on ‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump’

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The Future of Food: Zoë Carpenter

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How Much Time Could Women Reclaim If They Didn't Have to Deal With Men’s Bullshit? Joan Walsh on Harvey Weinstein—plus John Nichols on Trump's Generals and Zoë Carpenter on the Future of Food

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Will the Generals Save Us from Trump? John Nichols

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The fraud investigation into Ivanka and Don Jr. and their Trump Soho project: Amy Wilentz

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Ai Weiwei on Refugees: They Are Part of Us—plus David Dayen on JPMorgan Chase and Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, Jared, and Don Jr.

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Talking with Hillary about What Happened: Joan Walsh

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Ari Berman: Gerrymandering Goes to the Supreme Court

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Say It Again: Donald Trump Did Not Win the Popular Vote—E.J. Dionne; plus Ari Berman on Gerrymandering and Joan Walsh with Hillary

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Katha Pollitt: What Hillary Gets Right in 'What Happened'

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Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber: Sasha Abramsky

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The Trouble with Hillary's 'What Happened': D .D. Guttenplan on Why the Clinton Divide Matters

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Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber—Sasha Abramsky; Plus, Katha Pollitt and D.D. Guttenplan on Hillary’s Memoir.

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Trump’s Campaign Chief Paul Manafort Faces Indictment—plus Hillary’s Book and Ken Burns’s Vietnam Doc

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In ‘What Happened,’ Hillary Fails to Grasp Populist Discontent: Sarah Leonard

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Hurricane politics and climate change in the Age of Trump: Mark Hertsgaard and John Nichols; plus Alfred McCoy on Cyberwar with China

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Hurricanes, Toxics, and Trump's EPA: John Nichols

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The Pentagon's Plans for War with China—and Why We Might Lose: Alfred McCoy

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Robert Mueller’s Brilliant Move Against Trump: Elizabeth Holtzman

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Behind Trump’s Heartless Attack on the Dreamers: John Nichols, plus Elizabeth Holtzman on Robert Mueller and Joan Walsh on Mike Pence

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Houston vs Climate Change: Roane Carey; plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump & Arpaio, and Bob Dreyfuss on Seth Rich

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Bannon’s Exit: All Power to Jared? Amy Wilentz & John Nichols; plus Joshua Holland on Russia & Democracy

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White Nationalists in Charlottesville & DC: Eric Foner; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Manafort and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and Golf

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How the Trump Presidency Ends: Frank Rich Compares the President’s Situation to Watergate

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Surviving the Trump Years: Katha Pollitt’s Guide for the Anxious and the Depressed

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Is Trump Desperate Enough to Pardon Himself? Plus Healthcare in the Senate and Happiness in Denmark

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Trump's Attorney & Russian Bankers: Bob Dreyfuss, plus Amy Wilentz on Don Jr. and Suzanne Gordon on the VA

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Al Franken Versus the De-Humorizer—Plus Ari Berman on Voting & Joan Walsh on Trump Jr.

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Naomi Klein: We’re All in Trump’s Reality Show Now—Plus Amy Wilentz on Jared; and Al Franken

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Naomi Klein: Kill the Trump Within—Plus, Health-Care in the Senate and Trump's Travel Ban

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Trumpcare Is the Most Unpopular Legislation in History—Plus, Socialism and Thoreau

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The Case for Impeaching Trump—Plus, Trump’s Tweets and Corbyn’s Triumph

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Norman Lear: Donald Trump Is the Middle Finger of the American Right Hand

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Sasha Abramsky: Trump Is Like a Cornered Animal. Plus: David Cole and Paul Mason

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Donald Trump's Cruel and Unusual Budget—Plus the Supreme Court on Voting and Trump in Saudi Arabia

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Will Trump Even Make It Through One Term? Plus: Montana’s Special Election, and Ivanka's New Book

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Rick Perlstein: What We Didn’t Understand about Trump

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Laura Poitras: The Many Contradictions of Julian Assange

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Margaret Atwood: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in the Age of Trump

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Bill McKibben: This Is Our Last Chance to Save the Planet

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Tom Frank: Would Bernie Have Been Able to Beat Trump? Hell Yes!

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Chris Hayes: Donald Trump Is a Law-and-Order President In the Worst Possible Way

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Chris Hayes: Trump ‘Knew Literally—And I Mean Literally—Nothing About’ His Health-Care Bill

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Jane Mayer on the Reclusive Billionaire Who Made Trump President

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Democrats Need to Understand Why the Rust Belt’s White Workers Still Support Trump

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This Is the Resistance: More Than 5,000 Grassroots Groups Have Sprung Up Since Trump Was Elected

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How the Democrats Can Beat Trump on Tax Reform

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Jane Mayer: Dark Money and Donald Trump

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The West Coast Is Leading the Resistance Against Trump

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Keith Ellison: How the Democrats Can Win

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How Far Outside the Legal Mainstream Is Neil Gorsuch?

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Our ‘Insane Clown President’—and the Women Who Marched Against Him

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We Can’t Just Protest Trump. We Must Defy Him.

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Trump: Vicious, But Vulnerable

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Obama Didn’t Talk Much About Race. Did that Open the Door to Trump?

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Best of the Left in 2016

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Robert Reich: Why Republicans Are Wrong about Taxes