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Sherrod Brown Speaks

Sherrod Brown Teaches Democrats How to Demolish Trump’s False-Prophet Populism Sherrod Brown Teaches Democrats How to Demolish Trump’s False-Prophet Populism

The senator from Ohio is the real deal. And that made his convention criticism of Donald Trump exceptionally authentic and effective.

Jul 29, 2016 / John Nichols

The Country’s Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina

The Country’s Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina The Country’s Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina

The Fourth Circuit appeals court finds that Republicans “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Jul 29, 2016 / Ari Berman

A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations

A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations

How to talk to your coworkers who share different political views.

Jul 29, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Vanessa Perez

The Progressives at the DNC Who Weren’t With Her The Progressives at the DNC Who Weren’t With Her

Not everyone in Philadelphia was excited about the nominee.

Jul 29, 2016 / Emilio Leanza and Astha Rajvanshi

Hillary Clinton DNC speech

Hillary Clinton Bets Against Fear Hillary Clinton Bets Against Fear

The first female nominee delivered an appeal for hope and unity, while the grieving father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq lowered the boom on Trump.

Jul 29, 2016 / Joan Walsh

Will Hillary’s Outreach to Bernie’s Supporters Work?

Will Hillary’s Outreach to Bernie’s Supporters Work? Will Hillary’s Outreach to Bernie’s Supporters Work?

John Nichols on Hillary in Philadelphia, D.D. Guttenplan on the Bernie movement, and Amy Wilentz on gender and politics.

Jul 29, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders

What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders

Thousands of e-mails show that the committee came to loathe Sanders’s campaign. But there’s no evidence that they rigged the primaries.

Jul 29, 2016 / Joshua Holland

William Barber II DNC

Americans Who’d Never Heard of Reverend William Barber II Won’t Be Able to Forget Him After Last Night Americans Who’d Never Heard of Reverend William Barber II Won’t Be Able to Forget Him After Last Night

His remarkable speech at the DNC put racial, social, and economic justice at the center of the 2016 campaign.

Jul 29, 2016 / Ari Berman

Eleanor Chai / Standing Water

What Breeds in ‘Standing Water’ What Breeds in ‘Standing Water’

Eleanor Chai’s poems require delving below the surface of each compact, enjambment-packed stanza, forcing the reader through a process of discovery not unlike Chai’s own origin sto...

Jul 29, 2016 / Larissa Pham

stressedbusinesswoman

There’s a Problem With ‘Crowd Labor’ There’s a Problem With ‘Crowd Labor’

Online outsourcing comes with costs.

Jul 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen

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