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The “Trump for Speaker” Campaign Shipwrecks on the Shoals of Stupidity The “Trump for Speaker” Campaign Shipwrecks on the Shoals of Stupidity

Some House Republicans want the former president to be their new boss. There are just two problems with this plan: It’s crazy, and it’s not allowed.

Oct 5, 2023 / John Nichols

Hope for Asylum Seekers

Hope for Asylum Seekers Hope for Asylum Seekers

The Biden administration will allow nearly half a million Venezuelan migrants in the United States to live and work legally in the country for 18 months.

Oct 5, 2023 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

Harry G. Barnes meeting with Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

The American Ambassador Who Helped Stop a Coup in Chile The American Ambassador Who Helped Stop a Coup in Chile

Everyone knows how Nixon and Kissinger paved Pinochet’s path to power. The story of Harry Barnes, who played a crucial role in the Chilean dictator’s exit, is much less well known...

Oct 5, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

Vice President Harris Swears In Laphonza Butler To The US Senate

Who Is the Real Laphonza Butler? Who Is the Real Laphonza Butler?

The new senator from California has been both a union organizer and a corporate consultant. Which side of her will we see in Congress?

Oct 5, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

Condemned condominiums in Houston, 2007.

The Crisis of Shelter in the United States The Crisis of Shelter in the United States

Housing is one the building blocks of human life. Why is it so scarce in this country?

Oct 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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How DeSantis Is Using Sports to Hijack a Florida College How DeSantis Is Using Sports to Hijack a Florida College

The far-right extremists in charge of New College are recruiting baseball players to overhaul the ideology of the student body.

Oct 4, 2023 / Dave Zirin

National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month

National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month

Latinos contributed a record-breaking $3.2 trillion to the US economy in 2021 (equivalent to the fifth-largest economy in the world), according to a new study by UCLA researchers.

Oct 4, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) attends a news conference with the Pro-Choice Caucus on the reintroduction of the “Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act,” outside the US Capitol on January 26, 2023.

The Reason Gavin Newsom Didn’t Appoint Barbara Lee Is the Reason She Should Be a Senator The Reason Gavin Newsom Didn’t Appoint Barbara Lee Is the Reason She Should Be a Senator

Lee called out the California governor’s approach to filling the vacancy, maintaining her tradition of speaking truth to power. Newsom wasn’t impressed. But voters should be.

Oct 4, 2023 / John Nichols

Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Women’s March LA on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, Calif.

Stigma Makes Abortion Criminalization Possible Stigma Makes Abortion Criminalization Possible

A Nebraska mother and daughter were put behind bars for self-managing an abortion, but not because of what the law says is illegal.

Oct 4, 2023 / Elizabeth Ling

Representatives Ilhan Omar and Summer Lee at the State of the Union address on February 7, 2023.

Progressive Democrats in Congress Have Had Our Backs. Now We Need to Have Theirs. Progressive Democrats in Congress Have Had Our Backs. Now We Need to Have Theirs.

One of our biggest jobs in 2024 is to protect our progressive champions from the array of right-wing forces trying to remove them from office.

Oct 4, 2023 / Alexandra Rojas

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