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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joins Climate Change Activists in Protest at Nancy Pelosi's Office

November 16, 2018

Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has joined about 200 climate-change activists as they stage a protest at the office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Ice Cube | Arrest the President (LYRICS)

November 16, 2018

Ice Cube takes aim at the President for the unprecedented level of corruption in his administration

Boy Erased | Movie

November 16, 2018

There are 77,000 people currently being held in conversion therapy across America. This is one gripping story.

Oil | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

November 16, 2018

How America became the number one producer of oil in the world and what that could mean for the environment.

November 16, 2018

Noam Chomsky Calls Trump and Republican Allies "Criminally Insane"

John Horgan Scientific American

The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats

November 16, 2018

Seizing the Initiative

Lester Spence Dissent Magazine

If moving government leftward is part of our mission, growing a political movement from the bottom up will require ballot initiatives

November 16, 2018

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Has an Ambitious Plan to Govern From the Left

Kara Voght Mother Jones

Liberal lawmakers are teaming up with Move On and Indivisible

Drain the Swamp

November 16, 2018

Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp.” But considering the culture of corruption inside of his administration, Washington is looking awfully...swampy.

November 16, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | November 16, 2018

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November 15, 2018

Looking Back at the 2016 Campaign

Christian Lorentzen Bookforum

Ben Fountain's "Beautiful Country Burn Again" revisits (and tries to make historical sense of) the convulsions of the 2016 election as prelude to--and forewarning of--the perfervid run-up in Trump country to the 2018 midterm contests.