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The Present | Movie

April 30, 2021

This Oscar-nominated short movie centers around a Palestinian man and his young daughter who set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift, showcasing the struggles they go through between soldiers, segregated roads, and checkpoints. Now streaming on Netflix.

Jamaal Bowman Delivers Progressive Response to Biden Address

April 30, 2021

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) delivers a video op-ed on behalf of the Working Families Party in response to Pres. Biden's address.

April 30, 2021

Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Internationalism

Laura Capote People’s Dispatch

García Márquez was a pilgrim of the world. His passion to know the truth, that age-old fetish of journalists, led him to travel and engage with the reality of the different people that he met.

April 30, 2021

Good Luck to Republicans if Biden’s Family Plan Becomes Law

Paul Krugman The New York Times

The first thing you need to know is that while Republicans always claim that raising taxes on the rich will destroy jobs, they have never yet been right.

April 30, 2021

Bernie Sanders to Rally With Charles Booker in Kentucky

Brett Wilkins Common Dreams

"Everyone expects progressives to lose in 2022," Sanders' team said, "but if we fight early, we're going to shock them all."

April 30, 2021

Heroes But Not Saints: Why We Shouldn't 'Cancel' Flawed Progressive Icons

Peter Dreier National Memo

If we require our progressive and radical heroes to be saints we won't have many people left to admire.

April 30, 2021

NewsGuild finds Gender and Racial Pay Gaps in Newsrooms

Angela Fu | Poynter Editor and Publisher

A man going up on an escalator. Two women climbing up a ladder.

The median salary for women of color was $15,727 less than the median salary for white men.

April 30, 2021

My name [Inaudible.]

Patricia Mona Eng Rattle

Responding to the shootings in Atlanta’s Gold Spa, poet Patricia Mona Eng uses online quotes of the shooter against the 911 recordings of the Asian woman calling for help.

April 29, 2021

Last Night Was Joe Biden’s Moment. May There Be Many More.

Joan Walsh The Nation

Scranton Joe, once the neoliberal Senator from Delaware, translated left ideas into unthreatening but inspiring language Wednesday night. Which is a huge accomplishment.

April 29, 2021

'We Need to Think Bigger': Jamaal Bowman Delivers Progressive Response to Biden

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. We need to seize this moment. It's on us, as Democrats and progressives, to meet the gravity of the moment. And history will judge our actions.