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Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers Is Still the Best President We Never Had Bill Moyers Is Still the Best President We Never Had

Many years ago, Molly Ivins tried to get a fellow Texan to make an unlikely bid for the White House.

Jun 5, 2019 / John Nichols

Mueller walks through halls of capitol building

It’s Time to Move on From Mueller It’s Time to Move on From Mueller

Mueller doesn’t want to testify, and the public wants Democrats to focus on the issues that matter to them.

Jun 5, 2019 / Aaron Maté

Shutdown Worker

Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response

Piecemeal reforms won’t do the job.

Jun 4, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Varshini Prakash

Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement on Climate Justice, the Green New Deal, and Revolution Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement on Climate Justice, the Green New Deal, and Revolution

“We didn’t ask to have the responsibility of protecting human civilization on our shoulders. But we’re stepping up to the plate.”

Jun 4, 2019 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson

A demonstrator protests in front of the Supreme Court as President Donald Trump announces Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee.

Don’t Just Pack the Court. Reimagine It. Don’t Just Pack the Court. Reimagine It.

It’s easy to understand the appeal of simply adding two (or four or six) liberal justices. But that’s just one potential reform, and this is a moment when all options should be on ...

Jun 4, 2019 / Joshua Holland

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Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue

A Nation of Elites? Katha Pollitt’s trenchant first-person account of the 1969 student strike at Harvard University [“Harvard’s Strike at 50,” May 20/27] raises a question about Th…

Jun 4, 2019

John Hickenlooper

If Democrats Pull Their Punches, Donald Trump Will Knock Them Out If Democrats Pull Their Punches, Donald Trump Will Knock Them Out

Tepid Democratic candidates calling for middle ground are doomed to fail.

Jun 3, 2019 / John Nichols

Mueller Russia Probe

How Did Russiagate Begin? How Did Russiagate Begin?

Why Barr’s investigation is important and should be encouraged.

May 30, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Ro Khanna on Yemen

In Search of a Green New Foreign Policy In Search of a Green New Foreign Policy

Domestically, progressives advocate a broad alternative to our disastrous environmental course. Where is the plan for reducing our damage abroad?

May 30, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage

Donald Trump on the lawn

Impeachment Would Affirm the Will of the People Impeachment Would Affirm the Will of the People

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Can we stop imagining that holding him to account would overturn the country’s general will?

May 29, 2019 / John Nichols

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