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Declassify the Evidence of Russian Hacking!

The debate over possible intervention in the election should be based on publicly disclosed evidence, not unverifiable, anonymous leaks.

The Nation

Politics

Here’s an Organizing Strategy to Revive the Democratic Party That Doesn’t Depend on White Voters

Many Democrats assume it’s impossible to get more people of color to vote. That’s just not true.

Steve Phillips
Politics

Fake News Is Not the Real Media Threat We’re Facing

What the conservative media machine does is much more dangerous.

David A. Bell
Race and Ethnicity

How to Fight for Women and Girls of Color While Trump Is President

Under Obama, the White House began collecting critically important data about women and girls of color. Under Trump, that data will become even more important.

Dani McClain
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From the Magazine

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A Progressive Foreign Policy

How American Exceptionalism Has Undermined Foreign Policy

End-of-history triumphalism will get us nowhere as the new century advances.

Patrick Lawrence

The Importance of Diplomacy in a World of Multiple Power Centers

None of the major powers have the capacity to overrule the others, but each has the ability to frustrate the designs of rivals.

Michael T. Klare

Progressive Values Don’t Stop at the Water’s Edge

Our foreign-policy alternative should be based on people’s actual concerns, not the made-up “crises” Washington think tanks cook up.

Stephen Miles

The Obama Years

The Trump Administration

Trump’s Pick for Ambassador to Israel Could Kill the Two-State Solution

David Friedman is an extremist. If he gets his way, he’ll reverse decades of US policy and encourage apartheid rule over Palestine.

Eli Clifton

How the Trump Administration Could Change the American Landscape, Literally

Get ready for a rush to plunder our public lands.

Zoë Carpenter

Trump’s Cabinet Is a Coup Waiting to Happen

The president-elect’s main advisors are a clique of “warrior-generals” who may spell the end of the democratic experiment.

William J. Astore
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Culture

This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.

In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?

Susan McWilliams

Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment

“We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams,” a Nation writer said in 1992.

Richard Kreitner

The Ten Best Albums of 2016

As the business of recorded music roils, the making of music rolls on.

David Hajdu

Watch and Listen

Watch: Homeless in the Shadow of Santa Barbara’s Mansions

For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.

December 20, 2016

View: These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans

Following the path of cotton from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall.

December 12, 2016

Watch: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons

What we can learn from one of the great organizers in American history.

November 15, 2016

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