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Green New Deal

The Environment Is in Trump’s Crosshairs. We Need to Fight Back. The Environment Is in Trump’s Crosshairs. We Need to Fight Back.

This isn’t scattershot; it is a well-planned effort to destroy environmental regulations and investments built up over decades.

Sep 17, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

Central Americans seeking asylum status

Take Action Now: Help Migrants Seeking Asylum Take Action Now: Help Migrants Seeking Asylum

Defend the right to asylum and get involved with local groups, plus help stop Trump’s phony war in Iran.

Sep 17, 2019 / NationAction

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Trump’s Lies Are Getting Even Worse Trump’s Lies Are Getting Even Worse

We can barely remember what last week’s scandal was, and that’s a real problem.

Sep 17, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

Elizabeth Warren

WFP’s Nod to Warren Reminds Progressives of the Inevitable Need to Choose WFP’s Nod to Warren Reminds Progressives of the Inevitable Need to Choose

A lot of progressive groups (and voters) have held off on making the Sanders-vs.-Warren choice. But they’ll face more and more pressure to decide how best to block Biden.

Sep 17, 2019 / John Nichols

Ballot Box Hand

Democrats, Don’t Be Afraid to Go Big in 2020 Democrats, Don’t Be Afraid to Go Big in 2020

To win in the long run, the party must compete everywhere.

Sep 17, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836)

The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836) The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836)

Letters and pamphlets are good. Petitions, better: Ye who have pens, prepare to use them now. We’re going to need all of you to go house to house to collect signatures. We’ve been…

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range

The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)

The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838) The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)

Somebody had to be the first to amass the proof from slaveholders’ mouths: twenty thousand newspapers from the South, the unthinking testimony parsed, scissored carefully into stri…

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

ignore this…

Sep 17, 2019 / Peter Kuper

Trump Sharpie

His Trusty Sharpie Pen His Trusty Sharpie Pen

Mistaken on the path the storm might take, Unable to acknowledge a mistake, He got a map of Dorian, and then He fixed it with his trusty Sharpie pen. So, soon will he show pictures…

Sep 17, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners

Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners

Her second book, Normal People, mines the travails of Irish youth to tell a decidedly contemporary love story. 

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

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