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The Supreme Court Won’t Reinstate the Country’s Worst Voter-Suppression Law The Supreme Court Won’t Reinstate the Country’s Worst Voter-Suppression Law

The federal courts ruled that North Carolina’s restrictions targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.”

May 15, 2017 / Ari Berman

Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot

Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot

The historian William Hogeland talks about the first war the United States ever fought and the “problematic and thorny and painful” questions his new book raises.

May 15, 2017 / Richard Kreitner

Pramila Jayapal

Pramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough Pramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough

The freshman congresswoman from Washington thinks that this is the time when progressive ideas can go mainstream.

May 15, 2017 / Feature / Joan Walsh

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Welcome to the ‘War On Drugs,’ Redux Welcome to the ‘War On Drugs,’ Redux

Punishing low-level drug offenders is back in style. Thanks a lot, Jeff Sessions.

May 12, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

‘Everybody’ Has Something to Say About Logic

‘Everybody’ Has Something to Say About Logic ‘Everybody’ Has Something to Say About Logic

Logic is an adept lyricist known for speedy, tongue-twisting flows, and yet much of the public narrative about the rapper fixates on the way he looks.

May 12, 2017 / Marcus J. Moore

US Forces YPG Arms

US Arms Syrian Kurds—and Turkey’s Erdogan Cries ‘Terrorism’ Ahead of Trump Meeting US Arms Syrian Kurds—and Turkey’s Erdogan Cries ‘Terrorism’ Ahead of Trump Meeting

Ankara fears it will help the Kurds form a federal ethnic province in Syria, and thus give the Turkish Kurds ideas.

May 12, 2017 / Juan Cole

Trump Carrier Factory

Donald Trump Is Waging a War on Workers Donald Trump Is Waging a War on Workers

On almost every measure, Trump is making life worse for the working class.

May 12, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage

Donald Trump Supporter

Rick Perlstein: Trump Has Exposed the Dark Underbelly of American Conservatism Rick Perlstein: Trump Has Exposed the Dark Underbelly of American Conservatism

How historians missed the angry, violent, racist side of the conservative movement.

May 12, 2017 / Jon Wiener

Acts of Insolence

Acts of Insolence Acts of Insolence

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is earnest in a way that’s ill-suited to a movie that pretends to razz the whole superhero business.

May 12, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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This Civil Rights Lawyer Is on the Path to Becoming Philly’s Next DA This Civil Rights Lawyer Is on the Path to Becoming Philly’s Next DA

Larry Krasner has spent his professional life defending activists and suing the police.

May 12, 2017 / Daniel Denvir

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