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India Walton

India Walton: ‘Finally We’ll Be Able to Put Resources Behind All of These Bold, Visionary Ideas’ India Walton: ‘Finally We’ll Be Able to Put Resources Behind All of These Bold, Visionary Ideas’

The winner of Buffalo’s Democratic mayoral primary knows that the key to making the bold progressive change the city needs is control of the budget and prioritization of resources.

Jul 24, 2021 / Q&A / John Nichols

Republicans Hate Voting Rights Because They Threaten White Power

Republicans Hate Voting Rights Because They Threaten White Power Republicans Hate Voting Rights Because They Threaten White Power

It’s no accident that the current assault on voting rights started not with the failed reelection of Donald Trump but with the successful election of Barack Obama.

Jul 22, 2021 / Elie Mystal for The Nation

India Walton

Progressives Around the Country Are Recalling Sewer Socialism’s Proud History Progressives Around the Country Are Recalling Sewer Socialism’s Proud History

At the local level, sidewalk socialists represent a movement whose time has come.

Jul 21, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Utopia Is Possible—Yes, Even Now, Especially Now—but We Have to Demand It

Utopia Is Possible—Yes, Even Now, Especially Now—but We Have to Demand It Utopia Is Possible—Yes, Even Now, Especially Now—but We Have to Demand It

Radical faith in grand visions is supercharged by the promise that fundamental change is possible.

Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / John Nichols

A person in wheelchair, being pushed by another person, waiting to cast their vote in the Wisconsin primary election

The Community That May Be Hurt Most by Republican Voter Restrictions: Americans With Disabilities The Community That May Be Hurt Most by Republican Voter Restrictions: Americans With Disabilities

Bills making it harder for them to vote from home are an affront to their civil rights.

Jul 13, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’

Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’ Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’

A conversation on the educational empowerment of rural poor in India, and the evolution of Spivak's thinking about state and citizen.

Jul 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Francis Wade

Loss Runs Like a River Through My Life

Loss Runs Like a River Through My Life Loss Runs Like a River Through My Life

On grief’s unequal racial burden, and the Internet as a vehicle to negotiate survival and turn collective grief into collective action.

Jun 16, 2021 / Malkia Devich-Cyril

Raoul Peck’s World

Raoul Peck’s World Raoul Peck’s World

In Exterminate All the Brutes, Peck offers a bold new history of colonialism and violence.

Jun 14, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ed Morales

U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) (R) and Joe Manchin (D-WV)

Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling? Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling?

Bolstering voting rights is both urgent and popular. Yet for all his talk of “existential crisis,” Biden hasn’t turned up the heat on Manchin or Sinema.

Jun 14, 2021 / Column / Jeet Heer

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Democracy on a Ventilator Democracy on a Ventilator

Two crises, two emergency lockdowns, but only one is called a matter of public health.

Jun 9, 2021 / S. Eudora Smith

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