CATEGORIES

Keeping the Faith
Mother Jones

Keeping the Faith

Raphael Warnock is braving the swamp to redeem Georgia. And America.

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9 mins  |
January/February 2021
The Racist Next Time
Mother Jones

The Racist Next Time

Trump rode bigotry to the White House. The next Trump could too.

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5 mins  |
January/February 2021
Ladies Who Launch
Mother Jones

Ladies Who Launch

Trump propelled many women to join the liberal resistance. Now they’re determined to remake their communities.

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7 mins  |
January/February 2021
Secrets Of The Most Productive People – Gina McCarthy
Fast Company

Secrets Of The Most Productive People – Gina McCarthy

President and Ceo, National Resources Defense Council

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Winter 2020/2021
Still Speaking Out
Fast Company

Still Speaking Out

Activist, author, and lawyer Ady Barkan is fighting for progressive policies while battling ALS.

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4 mins  |
Winter 2020/2021
Break It Up
Mother Jones

Break It Up

The cycle of punitive justice begins in school. But a transformative movement is changing that, one hallway fight at a time.

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10+ mins  |
November/December 2020
Exhale, America
New York magazine

Exhale, America

The one-term reign of the man who never should've won

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10+ mins  |
November 09, 2020
America Is Not the Country Joe Biden Believes It to Be
New York magazine

America Is Not the Country Joe Biden Believes It to Be

The durability of the liberal delusion and the future of the right.

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8 mins  |
November 09, 2020
A Guide to the World In 2050
Bloomberg Businessweek

A Guide to the World In 2050

As the balance of power shifts from West to East, market to state, democracy to authoritarianism and populism—history isn’t over. It’s just getting started

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7 mins  |
November 16, 2020
A Diaspora Divided
Bloomberg Businessweek

A Diaspora Divided

Indian-Americans lean strongly Democratic, but Trump is making inroads—thanks to Narendra Modi

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5 mins  |
November 02, 2020
The World's Best Bureaucrat
New York magazine

The World's Best Bureaucrat

As chairman of the Federal Reserve during the global pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Enablement
New York magazine

Enablement

The torture self justification of one very powerful Trump loathing anonymous republican.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Census Says Deadline Can Be Reached With Tech, Nonstop Work
Techlife News

Census Says Deadline Can Be Reached With Tech, Nonstop Work

Technology and working around the clock should allow the U.S. Census Bureau to crunch numbers from the 2020 census in half the time originally allotted, but if the work isn’t completed by a year-end deadline, the statistical agency will take the extra time needed to finish it, bureau officials said Wednesday.

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October 24, 2020
It Can Happen Here
Mother Jones

It Can Happen Here

Trump knows he can’t win without trashing the Constitution. And he may just get away with it.

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7 mins  |
November/December 2020
Mother Jones

"Our Country is Full"

America’s asylum system was already broken. Then Donald Trump turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty.

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10+ mins  |
November/December 2020
The Atlantic

American Caudillo

Donald Trump is slowly making the U.S. into a likeness of the countries Latino refugees have been fleeing.

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9 mins  |
November 2020
A Sea Change For The Supreme Court
Bloomberg Businessweek

A Sea Change For The Supreme Court

The Sept. 18 death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg set up a political fight over the future of the high court, with Republicans determined to seat her replacement before Election Day over Democrats’ objections.

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10+ mins  |
October 05, 2020
How Biden would tax Trump
Bloomberg Businessweek

How Biden would tax Trump

A President Biden may not back a wealth tax, but he could find ways to make life less rich for Trump’s heirs

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October 05, 2020
The Atlantic

Make America Again

The country is at alow point –our civic bonds frayed, our politics toxic. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that advances citizens' rights opportunity, and repairs our broken democracy.

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10+ mins  |
October 2020
Lock Him Up?
New York magazine

Lock Him Up?

For the Republic to survive Trump’s presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.

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September 14 - 27, 2020
A To-Do List
Bloomberg Businessweek

A To-Do List

Whatever happens in the election, America must overhaul its government. Here’s how President Bill Lincoln—the fusion of two giants of the 19th century—would approach reform

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September 07 - 14, 2020
Protest Works
The Atlantic

Protest Works

How the Black Lives Matter demonstrations will shake up the 2020 election—and reshape American politics for a generation to come

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8 mins  |
September 2020
47 minutes with… Lezley McSpadden
New York magazine

47 minutes with… Lezley McSpadden

Six years, two district attorneys, and a national reckoning later, Michael Brown’s mother is still seeking justice.

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6 mins  |
August 3 - 16, 2020
New York magazine

The Making of a Molotov Cocktail

Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

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10+ mins  |
August 3 - 16, 2020
47 minutes with …Lauren Underwood
New York magazine

47 minutes with …Lauren Underwood

Adventures in remote legislating with the first-term congresswoman from Illinois.

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5 mins  |
July 20 - August 02, 2020
The Kanye Cycle
New York magazine

The Kanye Cycle

The danger in believing the rapper is serious about anything.

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6 mins  |
July 20 - August 02, 2020
The Worst Worst Case
The Atlantic

The Worst Worst Case

The U.S. banking system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.

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10+ mins  |
July - August 2020
41 minutes with … Marc Elias
New York magazine

41 minutes with … Marc Elias

The Democrats’ top election lawyer warns of a voter-suppression catastrophe in November.

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June 22-July 5, 2020
Techlife News

1.5 Million More Laid-Off Workers Seek Unemployment Benefits

About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, evidence that many Americans are still losing their jobs even as the economy appears to be slowly recovering with more businesses partially reopening.

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June 13, 2020
AppleMagazine

Criminals Stealing Unemployment Benefits As Claims Surge

Criminals are seizing on a surge in job losses to steal unemployment benefits from Americans nationwide. This complicates an already tough situation for millions of financially strapped Americans and overwhelmed state unemployment offices.

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June 12, 2020