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James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform. A Project 2025 sign is seen as at the Capitol Visitor Center on September 12, 2024.

The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers

James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, explains what the “bleak” world of labor under Project 2025 would look like.

Oct 15, 2024 / Q&A / Laura Flanders and Maximillian Alvarez

Kamala Harris visits the US-Mexico border with US Border Patrol Tucson sector chief John Modlin (R) in Douglas, Arizona, on September 27, 2024.

“Tough” Border Policies Don’t Work. It’s Time Harris and Trump Accepted That. “Tough” Border Policies Don’t Work. It’s Time Harris and Trump Accepted That.

Both parties are competing to see who can keep propping up the same old failed myths about immigration.

Oct 10, 2024 / Vicki B. Gaubeca

Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Dodge County Airport on October 06, 2024 in Juneau, Wisconsin.

Donald Trump Is Running Scared Donald Trump Is Running Scared

He relished the limelight in 2016 and 2020. Now he’s refusing to debate and ducking interviews.

Oct 9, 2024 / John Nichols

California Explains It All

California Explains It All California Explains It All

To understand US politics—for better and for worse—look to the Golden State.

Oct 8, 2024 / Ned Resnikoff

What Kind of Damage Will the Supreme Court Inflict This Term?

What Kind of Damage Will the Supreme Court Inflict This Term? What Kind of Damage Will the Supreme Court Inflict This Term?

To understand the ambitions of the conservative majority, look no farther than Project 2025, which was cooked up by some of the same people who engineered the current court.

Oct 4, 2024 / Feature / Elie Mystal

JD Vance speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Berks County Fairgrounds on September 21, 2024, in Leesport, Pennsylvania.

Who Says Donald Trump Was a “Failed” President? JD Vance. Who Says Donald Trump Was a “Failed” President? JD Vance.

The Republican vice presidential candidate argued as recently as 2020 that Trump “thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism.”

Sep 27, 2024 / John Nichols

Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a campaign rally at Ed Fry Arena in Indiana, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 2024.

Donald Trump’s Weak Ground Game Could Be His Undoing Donald Trump’s Weak Ground Game Could Be His Undoing

There is growing concern within the GOP that the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation is dangerously anemic.

Sep 24, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

Former president Donald Trump in front of a large crowd at a rally.

Will White Women Finally Wise Up to Trump’s BS? Will White Women Finally Wise Up to Trump’s BS?

Is this a “Boys vs. Girls Election,” or yet another in which white women stick with white men?

Sep 23, 2024 / Column / Kali Holloway

Kamala Harris speaks during a discussion hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 2024.

Kamala Harris Needs to Meet the Moment and Reframe Our Poisonous Immigration Debate Kamala Harris Needs to Meet the Moment and Reframe Our Poisonous Immigration Debate

The vice president has a chance to break the fever that has gripped US politics by giving a major speech defending Haitian Americans.

Sep 18, 2024 / John Nichols

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and former president Donald Trump during the second presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, September 10, 2024.

Trying to Outflank the GOP on China Is a Mistake  Trying to Outflank the GOP on China Is a Mistake 

Why China bashing is a dead end for Democrats.

Sep 12, 2024 / Jake Werner

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