Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
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Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the week in news. Hosted by Jon Wiener and presented by The Nation Magazine.
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What Trump Lost–and Won–with the Supremes; plus Haitians after TPS
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Norm Eisen: Fighting Trump’s Threats to Voting; plus Protest Success Stories
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Why Harvard Won’t Settle; plus Struggles of Supermarket Workers
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Primary Elections from LA to Maine, plus AI "Poetry"
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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The Dems After Tuesday’s Primaries, plus Elmore Leonard’s Bad Guys
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Stopping Trump’s Slush Fund, plus the Transformations of Bill Gates
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May 27, 2026 |
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Winning State Legislatures and Winning Midterm Elections
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May 20, 2026 |
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Democrats After the Voting Rights Act, plus Jews Against Zionism
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May 13, 2026 |
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Election Protection in the Midterms, plus Racists and Neo-Nazis in the 1940s and 50s
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May 06, 2026 |
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May Day Action—Plus a Confederate Monuments Takedown
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Ro Khanna: AI for the People; plus Trump’s Downward Spiral
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Rebecca Solnit on Long Term Strategy, plus Resisting ICE in Small Town America
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Minnesota Changed Everything—Plus, History on the Road
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Protest after No Kings, plus Abortion after Dobbs
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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No Kings Day: We Are Everywhere; plus Trump and Antisemitism
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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From the Straits of Hormuz to the Streets of Minneapolis, plus Mamdani and the Midterms
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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War in Iran, News in America
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Trump’s Attacks on Voting, and on Iran
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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State of the Union: Not Good; plus Jackie Robinson v. Paul Robeson
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Election Protection in the Midterms, plus Slaves Escaping by Sea
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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The Battle for Minneapolis, and the Fight for Texas
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The fight to Stop ICE—in Congress, and at the Super Bowl
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Freezing ICE Funding in the Senate, plus Standing Together in Israel and Palestine
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Minneapolis: the Landscape of Resistance—Plus, the Destruction brought by DOGE
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Trump, from Minneapolis to Caracas—Plus, How Capitalism Came to Communist China
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Venezuela in American Politics, plus VA Housing for Homeless Vets
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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A Year of Resistance—In the Streets, in Elections, and in the Courts
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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How LA Defeated Trump, Plus Bob Dylan’s Xmas
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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What Explains Epstein’s Friends? Plus, Crossword Politics
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Republicans and Obamacare, Again; plus Early, Early Bob Dylan
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Mamdani's Socialism--and Us; plus Football and Concussions
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Trump condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene, praises Mamdani; plus Alice Waters on ‘A School Lunch Revolution’
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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House Republicans Defy Trump; plus, when WWII Vets Came Home
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Mamdani’s Momentum, plus ‘The Radical Fund’
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Dem Voters Triumph; plus That Springsteen Movie
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Voters, Democrats, and Redistricting—Plus, Confederate Monuments in LA
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Rebecca Solnit on No Kings—Plus, Reforming the LAPD after Rodney King
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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No Kings Day: “It’s Gonna be Fun,” plus “One Battle After Another”
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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The Courts vs. Trump—Plus, "Gotham at War"
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Senate Dems Stand Up to Trump-Finally; plus Trump and Tylenol
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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How We Defeated Trump on Jimmy Kimmel—plus the attacks on Harvard, past and present
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Good News for Dems --plus Fascists and Teachers
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Trump’s Really Bad Week in Court—Plus, the New Film by China’s Top Director
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Here Comes the Sun, plus Our Fragile Freedoms
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Trump’s National Guard Strategy—Plus, the Secret Behind ‘Huck Finn’
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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The Mamdani Interview—Plus, Trump in Court
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Danish Resistance to Fascism, and Ours Today—Plus, Trump v. UCLA
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel on where we’re going, and Robert Reich on how we got here
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Dems who Didn’t Vote in 2024, plus Mussolini and Trump
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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How the Courts Blocked ICE Racial Profiling—Plus, How Organizers Succeed
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Musk's Third Party, plus the Birthright Citizenship Class Action
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Trump v. L.A.—Plus, Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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How Mamdani Won—Plus, Harvard v. Trump
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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How E. Jean Carroll Beat Trump in Court—Plus, What Really Happened in the 2024 Election
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Lessons of "No Kings"—Plus, Stopping the Medicaid Cuts
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Saturday’s "No Kings" Day of Defiance, plus Report from LA
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Saturday’s "No Kings" Day of Defiance, plus Report from LA
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The 2025 Vote the Dems Must Win—Plus, New York in the 1960s | Start Making Sense
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Winning Rural Voters, plus J. Edgar Hoover
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May 28, 2025 |
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Jamie Raskin on 'A Rally a Day,' plus the Books of 1925
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May 21, 2025 |
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Antisemitism and Free Speech, plus Farewell to Musk
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May 14, 2025 |
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Sherrod Brown: Winning Back the Working Class, plus ‘the Tide is Turning’
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May 07, 2025 |
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From the 1950s Red Scare to Trump, Plus the Alger Hiss Case
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Universities Resisting Trump, and the President who was Worse than Trump
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Harvard Takes a Stand; plus Musk and the Technocrats
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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The Tariffs We Want, plus Blocking Student Deportations
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Winning in Wisconsin, and in the Courts
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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An Amazing Week for Resistance Rallies, plus Bad Voter Registration Laws
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Trump and the Universities: Submission and Resistance
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Trump, the Universities, and the Courts; plus the Case of Stephen Miller
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The Supremes’ First Trump Case of 2025, plus This Week’s Protest Roundup
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan on What is to be Done
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Elon Musk’s First Political Contributions of 2025; plus The History of Culture Wars
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The Courts v. Trump and Musk
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Mobilizing Against Trump in Week 3: Rebecca Solnit and Leah Greenberg
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Chris Hayes: How Trump Wins the Battle for Attention
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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How We Got Here, plus Thanking the Undocumented
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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DNC v. Trump, plus Solidarity v. Trump
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Defending the Undocumented, plus Uncovering Hidden Wealth
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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The Dylan Movie, and the Trump Books
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Working Class Wins, plus Hot Rod Racing
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Why Kamala Lost, plus Trump Family Activities
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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What Can Stop Trump, plus Project 2025--the Dumb Parts
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Exploiting Trump’s Weaknesses; plus Mass Deportation in US History
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Trump Voters for Abortion; and Learning from John Lewis
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Rebecca Solnit on Hope in the Dark; plus the Trump-Musk Bromance
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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What Happened, and What Comes Next
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Kamala's Closing Message, plus Election Protection
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Are Black and Latino Voters Really “Drifting”? Plus Melania and her Memoir
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Understanding the Undecideds, plus Working Class Voters Now
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Polls--and Us; plus How A Dem Wins in a Red District
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Travels in Trumpland; plus the Fight Over ‘Freedom’
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Trump and Vance, Cats and Dogs, and Haiti; plus Small Town Trumpers
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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This Time it will be Harder for Trump to Challenge the Election, plus Talking to Trumpers
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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The Debate: What Kamala Accomplished; plus Victory for Homeless Vets
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Abortion Ground Zero: Florida; plus Rachel Kushner on “Creation Lake”
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The Kamala Surprise, plus the Crisis of the Constitution
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Why does Trump still have 44% of voters? Why is ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Still Number One?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Kamala Soars, Trump Flounders; plus Sherrod Brown's Strategy
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Tim Walz vs. J.D. Vance, plus Summer Beach Reading
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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How Kamala Can Win, plus Homeless Vets Sue the VA
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Kamala and America; plus the Fight for Arizona
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Politics After the Assassination Attempt
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Our Failing President and Our Right-Wing Court: John Nichols and David Cole
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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What is to be done about Joe Biden? w/Marc Cooper and Harold Meyerson
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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White Voters and Joe Biden; plus Harriet Tubman and History
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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How the Sixties Ended, plus the Endless War in Gaza
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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AIPAC vs The Squad, Plus State Constitutions Protecting Rights
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Trump Verdict and the Pundits, plus Trump and Women Now
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Gaza Protest and Free Speech, plus Biden’s Haiti Gala
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Abortion Pill Underground, plus Can Dems Hold the Senate?
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May 22, 2024 |
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American Origins of the Israel - Palestine Conflict, plus Climate Hope
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May 15, 2024 |
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The Mob Attack on UCLA’s Gaza Encampment, plus Israel, Hamas, and Rape
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May 08, 2024 |
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How Dems Can Win Rural Voters, plus “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”
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May 01, 2024 |
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Palestine and Israel: A Plan for Two States, One Homeland; plus the UAW and VW
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Trump's Very Bad Week, plus Prestige TV, from The Sympathizer to Shogun
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Democrats vs. Billionaires, plus Hamas vs. Fatah
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Israeli Jews and Palestinians Standing Together; plus Blue Cities in Red States
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Wages on The Ballot in Battleground States; Plus Cites With Ceasefire Resolutions
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Jews Against AIPAC, plus Free Speech on Campus
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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What the Polls Get Wrong about Biden, plus Haiti in Turmoil
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Biden After Super Tuesday—and the Case for a Voting Rights Amendment
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Abortion could make Florida a swing state in 2024; plus ‘Ukrainians in Exile’
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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“Renters are the sleeping giants of LA politics,” plus the Hidden History of AIDS
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The Families that Made Fortunes Selling Opium, plus the News from Haiti
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Jeff Merkley on a Ceasefire in Gaza, Sean Wilentz on Disqualifying Trump
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Heroes of the Left, Plus Healthcare for the Undocumented
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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New Hampshire Left and Right, plus Franz Fanon
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Reasons for Hope from the Iowa GOP, plus “American Fiction”
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Only Joe Biden Can Stop the War in Gaza, plus ‘Corporate Bullsh*t’
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Reasons for Hope in 2024: John Nichols, plus The Bill Gates Problem: Tim Schwab
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Katha Pollitt’s End-of-Year Giving List, plus Bob Dylan’s Xmas Album
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Feminists and rape: the case of Hamas; plus Moms for Liberty
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Democrats are Sleepwalking Toward a Trump Victory; plus Israel’s future
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Randi Weingarten on the Peace Movement in Israel; Gary Younge on ‘Rustin’
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Ending the War in Gaza: D.D. Guttenplan; plus John Powers on "Slow Horses"
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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We Need the Israeli Left Now More than Ever; plus Letters from California
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Palestinian Lives and Deaths: Rachel Kushner and Adam Shatz
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Abortion and the Democrats: John Nichols, plus Gaza and History: Fintan O'Toole
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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After a Gaza Ceasefire: D.D. Guttenplan, plus the UAW Victory
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Adam Shatz on Israelis, Palestinians, and Hamas
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Gaza and Us: Amy Wilentz
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The UAW's Historic Victory, plus Elon Musk and American Democracy
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Bill McKibben: Power to the People in Maine, plus Clinton’s ‘Fabulous Failure’
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Dahlia Lithwick on Voting Rights, plus Katha Pollitt on 'The Forgotten Girls'
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Trump and the Auto Strike, plus the Politics of Insecurity: Nelson Lichtenstein plus Astra Taylor
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Gary Younge: from Mandela to Black Lives Matter; plus Amy Wilentz on Haiti in September
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Heather Cox Richardson on ‘Our Authoritarian Experiment,’ Plus Chile Since Allende
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Our Hot Labor Summer, Plus Melania, Ivanka, and Those 91 Felony Charges
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Drew Faust Remembers the Sixties, plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and Georgia
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Right-Wing Attacks on Small-Town Libraries; plus “The Snow Leopard”
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Erwin Chemerinsky on The Trump Indictment, plus Katha Pollitt on “Barbie”
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Trump’s Trials, plus Barbie and Oppie
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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The Class Struggle This Summer
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The War on Black Studies, plus Hollywood on Strike
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat, plus Supreme Court Wins and Losses
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Summer of Strikes, plus After Affirmative Action: Jane McAlevy on Labor, John Nichols on Education
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The Battle on the Abortion Borderland, plus RFK Jr.
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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How Democrats can win Working-Class Voters; how Doctors are Fighting—against Hospitals
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Cornel West Should Not Be Running for President; plus the GOP vs. Divorce
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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D.D. Guttenplan on Biden and the Vision Thing; plus Disappearing Islands
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Is Planned Parenthood Too Cautious? Plus: Writing and Politics
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May 25, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Toobin on the Roots of Jan. 6; Adam Hochschild on Anti-Woke History
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May 18, 2023 |
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Bhaskar Sunkara on Biden in 2024, plus Josh Gondelman on the Writers Strike
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May 10, 2023 |
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Impeach Clarence Thomas—Plus Joe Biden, the GOP, and “Freedom”
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May 04, 2023 |
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Anatol Lieven Reports from Ukraine, plus Amy Wilentz on Haiti
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Rebecca Solnit on Climate Action, plus John Nichols on Abortion Politics
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Elie Mystal, Joan Walsh and Chris Lehmann on Trump and his 34 Felonies; plus Afghan Girls in Exile
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Low-Paid Workers Strike and Win in LA; Minor League Baseball Players Get Organized
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Katha Pollitt on Women in 2023, plus Christian Appy on Protest in 1969
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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John Nichols on Banks and Regulations, plus Gregg Gonsalves on Masks and Covid
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Ron DeSantis says ‘The Left Made Me Do It”; plus our Oscar preview with John Powers
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Mar 08, 2023 |