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Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style

Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style

He bowed to the wackos’ demands. He’d needed their votes. Those were vital To winning the office he craved. Now all he has left is the title.

Feb 23, 2023 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Voters at the Tenney Park polling place in Madison, Wisconsin

Progressives Score a Major Win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Primary Progressives Score a Major Win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Primary

In a race that will determine the balance of power on a key court, liberal candidates just won a combined 54 percent of the vote.

Feb 22, 2023 / John Nichols

Television executive and Chairman of Fox News Roger Ailes in front of logo of recently launched Fox News Channel at Television Critics Association press event, January 14, 1997.

Crazy Like a Fox (Satire Alert) Crazy Like a Fox (Satire Alert)

How Roger Ailes made Fox News the place to find subjective objectivity.

Feb 22, 2023 / Richard Lingeman and Marvin Kitman

Rosa Parks, Courage and Leadership

Rosa Parks, Courage and Leadership Rosa Parks, Courage and Leadership

Rosa Parks was arrested first on December 1, 1955, and again on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.

Feb 22, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

The Tragedy of “Till” Is Our Failure to Grasp Its Radical Politics

The Tragedy of “Till” Is Our Failure to Grasp Its Radical Politics The Tragedy of “Till” Is Our Failure to Grasp Its Radical Politics

Director Chinonye Chukwu shifts the lens from Emmett Till’s tortured body to Mamie Till-Mobley’s vibrant mind and the movement she helped spawn.

Feb 22, 2023 / Robin D.G. Kelley

Carlos Berger's memorial

Chile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front Chile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front

The fight over a memorial to my friend Carlos Berger and other victims of the Caravan of Death reveals that there are still many in Chile who resist the lessons of our country’s tr...

Feb 22, 2023 / Ariel Dorfman

The Black Panthers’ Liberation School

Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction

In The Third Reconstruction, historian Peniel Joseph examines how how the broken promises of racial equality in the past might be fulfilled in the future.

Feb 22, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II

In the Dominican Republic, the Fight for Abortion Rights Is a Fight Against Anti-Blackness

In the Dominican Republic, the Fight for Abortion Rights Is a Fight Against Anti-Blackness In the Dominican Republic, the Fight for Abortion Rights Is a Fight Against Anti-Blackness

Afro-feminist movements push for comprehensive sex education, a cultural shift, and exceptions to a total abortion ban.

Feb 22, 2023 / Natalia Perez-Gonzalez

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) gives a thumbs down during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on February 7, 2023.

The Real Problem With Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Call for a “National Divorce” The Real Problem With Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Call for a “National Divorce”

For Greene, "divorce" is just another word for secession—and now, as then, it has everything to do with white supremacy.

Feb 22, 2023 / Elie Mystal

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor. Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.

Public health requires seeing the world from a collective perspective, but US agencies are still dominated by doctors trained to work on an individual level.

Feb 22, 2023 / Eric Reinhart

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