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Heather Booth, founding director of the Midwest Academy

The Midwest Academy Is Still Training the Organizers Who Make Another World Possible The Midwest Academy Is Still Training the Organizers Who Make Another World Possible

Fifty years after its founding, the organization keeps, in the words of Bernie Sanders, doing “exactly what needs to be done in the country.”

May 19, 2023 / John Nichols

Demonstrations went on in New York City on Saturday on May 6, 2023, five days Jordan Neely was allegedly choked to death by 24-year-old US Marine veteran Daniel Penny on a subway in the city

Why the Right Embraces Military-Veteran Vigilantes Why the Right Embraces Military-Veteran Vigilantes

The right is often misconstrued as anti-war. In reality, it wants to wage its war on American soil—against people whose Americanness it won’t recognize.

May 19, 2023 / Spencer Ackerman

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks

The Man Who Called Breonna Taylor’s Killing “Justified” Could Be Kentucky’s Next Governor The Man Who Called Breonna Taylor’s Killing “Justified” Could Be Kentucky’s Next Governor

Attorney General Daniel Cameron sided with the police after Taylor’s death. Now, he’s the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee.

May 18, 2023 / John Nichols

What You’re Voting For

What You’re Voting For What You’re Voting For

Grab him by the election.

May 18, 2023 / OppArt / Clay Bennett

Nadezhda Azhgikhina in Moscow in 1999.

Notes of a Russian Visitor Notes of a Russian Visitor

The director of PEN Moscow is worried about Russophobia.

May 18, 2023 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Cherelle Parker speaks at a podium

Philadelphia’s Next Mayor Will Almost Certainly Be a Black Woman Philadelphia’s Next Mayor Will Almost Certainly Be a Black Woman

Yet, for all her claims to history, primary winner Cherelle Parker was the status quo candidate in a city where the status quo is badly broken.

May 18, 2023 / Gene Seymour

Biden and McCarthy

More “Dangerous Nonsense” From “The New York Times” on the Debt Ceiling More “Dangerous Nonsense” From “The New York Times” on the Debt Ceiling

There are multiple legal pathways to resolve the current debt “crisis.” Having the president and House speaker agree on spending cuts to programs already approved by Congress is no...

May 18, 2023 / James K. Galbraith

How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer

How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer

Antiquated and discriminatory rules around fertility treatments are making the struggle to have a child immeasurably more difficult for many military families.

May 18, 2023 / Britta Lokting

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980.

The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ian Penman’s study of the German filmmaker’s work elucidates his “cocaine communism”—an aesthetics and politics of revolution and pleasure.

May 18, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Marzoni

Ady Barkan speaks on Capitol Hill

How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare

Once corporations privatize every inch of the public provision of health care, we may never get Medicare back.

May 17, 2023 / Ady Barkan

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