How a small group of reactionaries hijacked the Republican Party—decades before the 2016 election.
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How to Get From Bravery to Victory
A former war correspondent sees the civil rights movement as a kind of military campaign—and helps us envision how to win the current war for democracy.
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How Mitch McConnell Made the Senate Even Worse
Republican power grabs and hyper partisanship are just part of his grim reign as Senate Republican Leader.
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Washington’s Hundred-Year War on Gays
A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.
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Michael Madigan: The Man Who Ran Illinois
How the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history wielded power—until the feds caught up to him.
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Can Diverse Democracies Survive?
Without the glue of a shared national narrative, probably not.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
Can Democrats Hold Georgia?
The party did everything right to win the state in 2020—and the Republicans did everything wrong.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
On the Basis of Sex
The amazing success and frustrating challenges of Title IX.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
Moderation in the Name of Liberty is No Vice
Francis Fukuyama’s calm evisceration of illiberalism on the left and right.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
The Strike Zone
Little-known labor heroes provide a path forward for today.
