Elections

Colombia Labor day

Free Trade Is Killing Colombian Labor Activists Free Trade Is Killing Colombian Labor Activists

Workers attempting to exercise their rights have suffered at least 1,466 threats and acts of violence since the trade deal went into effect in 2012.

Aug 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Katy Perry at the DNC

Hit Machine Hit Machine

It’s unclear what the Clinton campaign thought they could gain by association with Katy Perry on the DNC’s biggest night.

Jul 29, 2016 / David Hajdu

Sherrod Brown Speaks

Sherrod Brown Teaches Democrats How to Demolish Trump’s False-Prophet Populism Sherrod Brown Teaches Democrats How to Demolish Trump’s False-Prophet Populism

The senator from Ohio is the real deal. And that made his convention criticism of Donald Trump exceptionally authentic and effective.

Jul 29, 2016 / John Nichols

The Country’s Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina

The Country’s Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina The Country’s Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina

The Fourth Circuit appeals court finds that Republicans “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Jul 29, 2016 / Ari Berman

A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations

A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations

How to talk to your coworkers who share different political views.

Jul 29, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Vanessa Perez

The Progressives at the DNC Who Weren’t With Her The Progressives at the DNC Who Weren’t With Her

Not everyone in Philadelphia was excited about the nominee.

Jul 29, 2016 / Emilio Leanza and Astha Rajvanshi

Hillary Clinton DNC speech

Hillary Clinton Bets Against Fear Hillary Clinton Bets Against Fear

The first female nominee delivered an appeal for hope and unity, while the grieving father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq lowered the boom on Trump.

Jul 29, 2016 / Joan Walsh

Will Hillary’s Outreach to Bernie’s Supporters Work?

Will Hillary’s Outreach to Bernie’s Supporters Work? Will Hillary’s Outreach to Bernie’s Supporters Work?

John Nichols on Hillary in Philadelphia, D.D. Guttenplan on the Bernie movement, and Amy Wilentz on gender and politics.

Jul 29, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders

What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders

Thousands of e-mails show that the committee came to loathe Sanders’s campaign. But there’s no evidence that they rigged the primaries.

Jul 29, 2016 / Joshua Holland

William Barber II DNC

Americans Who’d Never Heard of Reverend William Barber II Won’t Be Able to Forget Him After Last Night Americans Who’d Never Heard of Reverend William Barber II Won’t Be Able to Forget Him After Last Night

His remarkable speech at the DNC put racial, social, and economic justice at the center of the 2016 campaign.

Jul 29, 2016 / Ari Berman

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