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The Guardrails Have Failed

Brian Beutler / May.24.19

The Democratic approach to checking President Trump is failing, and it has yet to dawn on anyone who has the power to change course.

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This Land

Who Owns Oklahoma?

Rebecca Nagle / May.23.19

The Supreme Court will soon decide a case about murder, theft, and whether half of Oklahoma rightfully belongs to five Native tribes. You haven't heard about it because Native stories, issues, and voices are almost completely shut out of the media. We hope to change that.

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2020

Lock Him Up?

Brian Beutler / May.21.19

If Congress is determined not to hold Trump accountable, then the final mechanism of accountability is a future Justice Department, committed to giving Trump’s misconduct the scrutiny it deserves. Democratic candidates should stake out that ground now.

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2020

Would Democrats Restore Roe If Republicans Overturned It?

Brian Beutler / May.17.19

Can a party whose leaders who are so conflict averse that they will passively allow Trump to commit crimes at their own expense take radical steps to restore a right to abortion?

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Democrats Shouldn’t Fear a Just Middle East Policy

Jeremy Ben-Ami / May.15.19

New polling demonstrates that Democratic voters want their candidates to support a balanced, principled, and forward-looking consensus position on Israel.

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Notes On Camp, an Addendum from the Met Gala

Ira Madison III / May.9.19

We might be able to  do away with Susan Sontag's Notes on Camp as the definitive authority on it. We have a new context—that’s broader, browner, blacker, queerer.

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Impeachment

Democrats Won’t Do the Right Thing Unless We Make Them

May.7.19

Democratic paralysis in the face of the most corrupt administration in history carries a sobering lesson for those who find themselves in Trump’s sights.

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2020

Democrats: Don’t Fall Into the ‘Electability’ Trap

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Sean McElwee / May.2.19

In absence of empirical meaning "electability" has come to reflect our collective biases—a euphemism for things we would rather not say, but want to imply.

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2020

Democrats Green Light Trump’s Authoritarian Ambitions

Brian Beutler / May.2.19

Less than a month after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report became public, Democratic paralysis has uncorked Trump’s authoritarian desires.

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The Democrats’ Fatal Impeachment Error

Brian Beutler / May.1.19

Republicans have sent Democrats scrambling to avoid the impeachment fight the Constitution calls on them to join—even at the cost of helping Trump win.

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