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Detention in Washington

Will Immigrants in Long-Term Detention Get Their Day in Court? The Supreme Court Is About to Decide. Will Immigrants in Long-Term Detention Get Their Day in Court? The Supreme Court Is About to Decide.

The Court needs to recognize the constitutional rights of people in detention before it’s too late.

Nov 28, 2016 / Alina Das

Washington Post building

‘The Washington Post’ Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist ‘The Washington Post’ Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist

“PropOrNot” has smeared working journalists as agents of the Kremlin while wrapping itself in a cloak of anonymity.

Nov 28, 2016 / James Carden

Jill Stein

Jill Stein’s Recount Drive Is Futile and Misdirected Jill Stein’s Recount Drive Is Futile and Misdirected

I’m all for recounts in any close election—but I also believe in facing facts.

Nov 28, 2016 / Bruce Shapiro

Donald Trump

The President-Elect Is an Internet Troll The President-Elect Is an Internet Troll

And the media has no idea what to do with him.

Nov 28, 2016 / Joan Walsh

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Donald Trump Is the Greatest Threat to American Democracy in Our Lifetime Donald Trump Is the Greatest Threat to American Democracy in Our Lifetime

His lies about voter fraud are a prelude to massive voter suppression.

Nov 28, 2016 / Ari Berman

Steny Hoyer

It’s Time to Retire Steny Hoyer It’s Time to Retire Steny Hoyer

Nancy Pelosi’s leadership is essential to an opposition Democratic Party, but her whip, Steny Hoyer, is a favorite of lobbyists and corporations.

Nov 28, 2016 / Robert L. Borosage

Donald Trump Detroit

Donald Trump Is a Hypersensitive, Tantrum-Throwing Sore Winner—but the Recount Must Go On Donald Trump Is a Hypersensitive, Tantrum-Throwing Sore Winner—but the Recount Must Go On

Perfectly reasonable plans to recount votes in three battleground states have the president-elect acting even more thin-skinned than Richard Nixon.

Nov 28, 2016 / John Nichols

Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization

Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization

The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals—and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one.

Nov 28, 2016 / Feature / Seth Freed Wessler

After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?

After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next? After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?

Castro’s death comes at a particularly delicate stage in the ongoing effort to normalize Cuba-US relations.

Nov 26, 2016 / Peter Kornbluh

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Philip Guston’s Man Beyond Redemption Philip Guston’s Man Beyond Redemption

Guston’s drawings of Richard Nixon stayed private until decades after the artist’s death.

Nov 26, 2016 / Alina Cohen

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