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Fox’s Lies Are the Folklore of Racial Capitalism Fox’s Lies Are the Folklore of Racial Capitalism

Despite its $787.5 million settlement over 2020 election fabrications, the cable news channel continues its racist fabulizing.

May 26, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

Tina Turner performing at the

When Tina Turner Rocked Out for George McGovern When Tina Turner Rocked Out for George McGovern

The “Queen of Rock and Roll” usually stayed out of politics. But in 1972, she headlined a remarkable rally for the anti-war senator’s presidential campaign.

May 26, 2023 / John Nichols

Joe Biden

Biden Must Remake His Candidacy Biden Must Remake His Candidacy

His approval polling is too weak to afford not to mount a full-scale campaign in New Hampshire and other battleground states.

May 26, 2023 / D.D. Guttenplan and John Nichols

Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing

Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing

The Florida governor’s bungled campaign launch makes clear there is only room for one Trump.

May 26, 2023 / Jeet Heer

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Failure to Launch: The DeSantis Debacle Failure to Launch: The DeSantis Debacle

The jokes write themselves after Ron DeSantis’s campaign opener, on Twitter with cartoon villain Elon Musk, flames out as badly as some SpaceX rockets.

May 25, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Those Crazy Thomases

Those Crazy Thomases Those Crazy Thomases

It’s always sunny for Ginni and Clare.

May 25, 2023 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

DeSantis Seeks to Be America‘s Permanent Culture-War Commissar

DeSantis Seeks to Be America‘s Permanent Culture-War Commissar DeSantis Seeks to Be America‘s Permanent Culture-War Commissar

How the newly announced candidate for the GOP presidential nomination hopes to ride white backlash politics all the way to the White House. 

May 25, 2023 / Anthony Conwright

Demonstrators at a solidarity rally for Starbucks workers in downtown Ithaca, N.Y., on May 12.

Starbucks Closes Its Ithaca Locations One Year After Workers Unionized Starbucks Closes Its Ithaca Locations One Year After Workers Unionized

Former Starbucks employees say the fight is far from over as they pressure Cornell University to "divest" from the company.

May 25, 2023 / Michelle Chen

People gathered at City Hall in October 2022 for a rally to protest deaths in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.

Maryland’s Solitary Confinement Reform Bill Stalls in the Democratic State Legislature Maryland’s Solitary Confinement Reform Bill Stalls in the Democratic State Legislature

Lawmakers “had the opportunity to do something that would have made a huge systemic change and put the state on the right path—and they didn’t,” said the bill’s author.

May 25, 2023 / Victoria Law

Donald Trump is greeted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd

In the areas where Americans would be most severely affected, there’s hardly a fly’s hair of separation between them.

May 25, 2023 / Clarence Lusane

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