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The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race

The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race

If Ralph Northam’s campaign is any indication, Democrats have learned the wrong lesson from 2016.

Oct 23, 2017 / Steve Phillips

Articles of Confederation

‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution ‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution

An interview with George William Van Cleve, author of a new book about a period of crisis that offers tools for thinking about our own.

Oct 23, 2017 / Richard Kreitner

It Feels Surreal Being a Puerto Rican in the United States These Days

It Feels Surreal Being a Puerto Rican in the United States These Days It Feels Surreal Being a Puerto Rican in the United States These Days

The disaster has revealed our ambiguous status as citizen-strangers.

Oct 17, 2017 / Javier Morillo

Doug Jones

Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy

There is a real desire for progressive solutions in every part of the country—including areas that many Democrats have, unfortunately, written off.

Oct 10, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line

North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line

How the GOP uses redistricting to maintain power in a purple state.

Sep 27, 2017 / Feature / Barry Yeoman

Minnesota wage protest

Red-State Governments Are Trying to Take Back Your Minimum-Wage Hike and LGBTQ Protections Red-State Governments Are Trying to Take Back Your Minimum-Wage Hike and LGBTQ Protections

But these cities won’t let them.

Sep 26, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias

Steve Long speaks during a UNC Board of Governors meeting.

The UNC Board Bans a Prominent Civil-Rights Center From Litigating The UNC Board Bans a Prominent Civil-Rights Center From Litigating

Under a new policy, the University of North Carolina’s Center for Civil Rights is forbidden from representing minority and low-income clients in court.

Sep 11, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter

Irma hits Puerto Rico

Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Are Part of the US Too Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Are Part of the US Too

But they don’t get the same level of attention as Florida and Texas—let alone equal representation.

Sep 11, 2017 / John Nichols

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Letters From the September 25-October 2, 2017, Issue Letters From the September 25-October 2, 2017, Issue

Labour pains… City vs. country…

Sep 7, 2017 / Our Readers and John Harris

Anti-SB 4 Protests in Texas

Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge

The nation’s harshest law targeting sanctuary cities won’t go into effect—for now.

Aug 31, 2017 / Julianne Hing

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