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Aug 9, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | John Nichols
Kamala Harris set up a virtual primary for the Democrats who wanted to join the party’s 2024 ticket as her vice-presidential running mate. She offered them all—governors and senators, progressives and centrists, East Coasters and Midwesterners, Southerners and Westerners—an opportunity to secure the nomination. And they all gave it their best. So how did Minnesota Gov.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | John Nichols
Kamala Harris set up a virtual primary for the Democrats who wanted to join the party’s 2024 ticket as her vice-presidential running mate. She offered them all—governors and senators, progressives and centrists, East Coasters and Midwesterners, Southerners and Westerners—an opportunity to secure the nomination. And they all gave it their best. So how did Minnesota Gov.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
portside.org | John Nichols |Andrew Lawrence |Dana Fisher |Raheleh Tarani
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024 Published April 23, 2024 Rev. Barber’s Challenge to Christian NationalismPassover 2024Weaponizing DEIThree Big Myths About Climate ActivismPro-Palestine Campus Groups Share StrategiesNeurodiversity and JusticeKen Loach SpeaksScotus’s Big Crackdown on ProtestWhy LeBron is the GOATThe Trial and the ElectionRev.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
portside.org | Will Bunch |John Nichols |Eleanor Bader |Conor Lynch
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 9, 2024 Published April 9, 2024 Bridge Tragedy and Immigrants’ GiftThe Rise of ‘Uncommitted’Teachers Fight Book Bans and FiringsDemocracy?
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
portside.org | John Nichols
The UAW Is Organizing the South Published February 7, 2024 More than half the workers at the sprawling Volkswagen auto assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., have signed cards signaling that they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
tampabay.com | Jim Verhulst |McKay Coppins |John Nichols |Adam Lowenstein
We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections. FROM THE LEFTFrom “You Should Go to a Trump Rally,” by McKay Coppins in The Atlantic at tinyurl.com/mr23w2c3. The context, from the author: For many Americans, the former president has become an abstraction. They should see for themselves what his campaign is really about.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
portside.org | John Nichols
Forget the Polls—Here’s What Actual Election Results Can Tell Us About 2024 Published November 13, 2023 “Joe Biden Loses Lead in Latest National Poll”“Biden nosedives in early-state polls”“Joe Biden Will Lose a General Election to Donald Trump”These are real headlines. But they’re not from the fall of 2023. They’re from 2019, when Joe Biden’s third bid for the presidency appeared to be crashing and burning.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
portside.org | John Nichols
Democrats Walking the Picket Lines vs. Anti-Worker Republicans Published September 26, 2023 When Dwight Eisenhower was running for president in 1952 as the nominee of a saner Republican Party, he appeared at the American Federation of Labor convention and delivered a full-throated embrace of industrial unions. “Today in America unions have a secure place in our industrial life,” Eisenhower told the delegates.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
commondreams.org | John Nichols |"The Death |"The Genius
When Dwight Eisenhower was running for president in 1952 as the nominee of a saner Republican Party, he appeared at the American Federation of Labor convention and delivered a full-throated embrace of industrial unions. “Today in America unions have a secure place in our industrial life,” Eisenhower told the delegates. “Only a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions.
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May 3, 2023 | 
commondreams.org | John Nichols |"The Death |"The Genius |As Ben Wizner
President Biden opened his speech at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner with an urgent appeal for the release of imprisoned journalists—and for increased global recognition of the vital importance of robust protections for a free press.
