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United States International Human Rights Climate Change Election 2020

Michael Tomasky

What Did the Democrats Win?

The minority repeatedly thwarting the will of the majority is intolerable and untenable.

December 17, 2020 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Democracy’s Afterlife

Trump, the GOP, and the rise of zombie politics.

December 3, 2020 issue

David Cole

A New Assault on Marriage Equality

A case before the Supreme Court tests whether its conservative justices will violate their long-standing constitutional principles in order to expand religious liberty.

December 3, 2020 issue

Madeleine Schwartz

Criminalizing a Constitutional Right

For many Americans, Roe v. Wade might as well have been overturned already.

December 3, 2020 issue

Francisco Cantú

The Lie of American Asylum

Three new books offer searing portraits of the people affected by family separations and the criminalization of asylum in the Trump era.

November 5, 2020 issue

Fintan O’Toole

William Barr: Enabler in Chief

The attorney general exemplifies the growing influence of right-wing Catholicism under Trump.

November 5, 2020 issue

Mark Danner

The Con He Rode In On

Why do people hardly even talk about all the car plants Donald Trump has brought to Michigan?

November 19, 2020 issue

Caroline Fraser

The Representative

Ilhan Omar’s ability to survive, even thrive, under chaotic conditions appears to have been a harbinger of a taste for political battle.

November 19, 2020 issue

The Latest

Amy Knight

Navalny, Ready to Run Again in Russia

The Russian opposition politician, who narrowly escaped death by nerve agent poisoning, remains undeterred from challenging Putin’s hegemony.

December 3, 2020

Jim Shultz

The Renewable Energy Rebels

In rural New York State, big wind and solar energy projects are running into determined local opposition. What is to be done?

December 3, 2020

Shirley Elizabeth Thompson

On Race and Property in the South

“There is just something about the robustness of Black cultural institutions and networks in the South that can’t be matched elsewhere.”

November 28, 2020

Amelia Lester

An Island at the Crossroads

Akemi Johnson’s new book explores the complexity of women’s lives in and around US military bases in Okinawa.

December 17, 2020 issue

E. Tammy Kim

Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

Korea’s radical history, told through the eyes of the colonial-era activist and organizer Kim San.

December 17, 2020 issue

Helen Epstein

In Uganda, Another Museveni Crackdown

As an election approaches, opposition to the strongman’s long, brutal rule is gathering—but it has to reckon with his security state and its international enablers.

November 25, 2020

Gal Koplewitz

Death on the Via Dolorosa

The police shooting of an unarmed autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem this summer provoked brief outrage, but little sign of a lasting movement for change in Israel.

November 23, 2020

Ankush Khardori

Holding the Fraudster-in-Chief to Account

“To my mind, the Justice Department as an institution is in its worst state in decades,” says the former federal prosecutor.

November 21, 2020

Ankush Khardori

The Case for Prosecuting Trump

Putting the former president on criminal trial carries big political risks. But to let this lawless leader off scot-free may be more dangerous still.

November 20, 2020

Shirley Elizabeth Thompson

Georgia On My Mind

The suburbs of Atlanta, where I grew up in an era still scarred by segregation, have transformed in ways that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency. But some things never change.

November 19, 2020