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On Voting Rights, Ted Cruz Tells the Truth for Once

On Voting Rights, Ted Cruz Tells the Truth for Once On Voting Rights, Ted Cruz Tells the Truth for Once

Expanded voter access benefits Democrats. So Cruz is telling GOP leaders they must stop it.

Mar 23, 2021 / Joan Walsh

What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions

What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions

The water defenders recognized the fight was less a contest of right versus left than right versus wrong.

Mar 23, 2021 / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

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Letters From the March 5/12, 2021, Issue Letters From the March 5/12, 2021, Issue

Along the Texas border… Leveling up… In the vicinity of bigotry (web only)…

Mar 23, 2021 / Our Readers and Jeet Heer

Ami Ayalon’s Political Journey

Ami Ayalon’s Political Journey Ami Ayalon’s Political Journey

In Friendly Fire, the former Shin Bet director offers two narratives—one of the story that Israel tells the world, the other of the story Israel tries not to tell the world.

Mar 23, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh

Kyrsten Sinema

How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out

The origin story of the Senate’s newest super villain.

Mar 22, 2021 / Aída Chávez

The Roots of the Atlanta Shooting Go Back to the First Law Restricting Immigration

The Roots of the Atlanta Shooting Go Back to the First Law Restricting Immigration The Roots of the Atlanta Shooting Go Back to the First Law Restricting Immigration

The Page Act of 1875, outlawing “lewd and immoral” Chinese women, codified the bigotry directed at Asian women from their earliest migration to the US to today.

Mar 22, 2021 / Mari Uyehara

Haiti protests

Gangs Rule the Streets of Jovenel Moïse’s Haiti Gangs Rule the Streets of Jovenel Moïse’s Haiti

A whole country has been kidnapped by a bloodthirsty, money-hungry cabal. And how does the US State Department respond? By calling for “dialogue.”

Mar 22, 2021 / Amy Wilentz

Cuomo Agonistes

Cuomo Agonistes Cuomo Agonistes

Inward facing.

Mar 22, 2021 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Andrew Cuomo

Why ‘Due Process’ Isn’t a Solution to the Cuomo Allegations Why ‘Due Process’ Isn’t a Solution to the Cuomo Allegations

And why an apparent generational divide over the governor’s fate is more complicated than it looks.

Mar 22, 2021 / Alexandra Brodsky

Representative Ro Khanna Explains Why He Called Out Biden’s Air Strike in Syria

Representative Ro Khanna Explains Why He Called Out Biden’s Air Strike in Syria Representative Ro Khanna Explains Why He Called Out Biden’s Air Strike in Syria

“I thought it was so important that, early on, Congress take a stand.”

Mar 22, 2021 / Q&A / John Nichols

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