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Kai Bird: Oppenheimer, Technology, and Today
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- Kai Bird: Oppenheimer, Technology, and Today
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- 6 days ago
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- On September 19th, The Nation held a special conversation with Kai Bird, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and author of American Prometheus, the book that inspired the hit film Oppenheimer.
Bird was in conversation with the Nation's Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and Editor D.D. Guttenplan on Oppenheimer, the context of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War, and how and why J. Robert Oppenheimer’s legacy remains relevant today.
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- How Oppenheimer Went From Biography to Biopic
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- 6 days ago
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- Kai Bird, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus, joins The Nation’s Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and Editor D.D. Guttenplan for a conversation on how his book became a blockbuster.
Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/h59RM2bbzlY
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- The Nation Poetry Reading Series: Maggie Smith, Charif Shanahan, and Omotara James
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- 3 months ago
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- A virtual reading featuring poets from the Nation magazine’s pages hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar on June 29, 2023.
Maggie Smith is the author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, an instant New York Times bestseller, and five other books of poetry and prose: Goldenrod, Keep Moving, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Best American Poetry, and more. She lives in Ohio with her two children.
Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023) and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Charif is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship fro...
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- Opp Art: A Ukrainian Lullaby
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- 4 months ago
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- A Dream Passes By The Windows
Credit: Paul Karasik
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- The Nakba Explained
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- 4 months ago
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- May 15th is the day commemorating the Nakba—a term used to denote Palestinians’ forced expulsion from their homeland by Zionist forces in 1948.
It's been 75 years since the event Palestinians know as “the Catastrophe,” but dispossession has become a timeless theme of the Palestinian experience.
In this video, the Nation's Palestine correspondent, Mohammed El-Kurd answers the question, "What is the Nakba?" and shows how it never really ended.
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- Nation Conversation: Can Donald Trump Be Brought to Justice?
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- 6 months ago
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- Featuring Joan Walsh, Chris Lehmann, and Elie Mystal in a roundtable conversation unpacking the first real attempt to hold Trump legally accountable for any of his many alleged crimes. Will the indictment open the door to weightier prosecutions in the Georgia and federal cases? Or will the extortion charge work to undermine more consequential pending actions against Trump? How, ultimately, might this impact Trump’s run for the White House in 2024? They discuss all this in more in a conversation moderated by D.D. Guttenplan and hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel.
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- The Nation Spring Poetry Reading with Martín Espada, Danez Smith, and Maggie Millner
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- These Guardian Watchmen Are Taking Marine Conservation Into Their Own Hands
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Kitasoo Xai’xais hereditary leadership took an unusual step in June 2022 and closed off the Kitasu Bay to all fisheries by declaring it an indigenous Marine Protected Area.
To protect the bay and wider traditional territory, the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nations employ Guardian Watchmen, a trained crew that patrols and stewards land and water.
In a historic move, BC Park Ranger status will be assigned to select guardian watchmen as part of a two-year pilot program, based on a memorandum of understanding signed in 2022 between the provincial government and the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation.
Video by:
Ali Withers and Ed Ou
Story Editor:
Ludwig Hurtado
Read the full story at https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/indigenous-protected-areas/
Made possible with support from the the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.
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- You Voted To Form a Union. Now What?
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- 1 year ago
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- You won your vote to start a union.. Now comes the hard part.
Negotiations aren’t easy. A year after workers vote to unionize, more than half still don’t have a contract.
After a year without a contract, management can push to legally dissolve a hard-won union.
Reaching a good contract matters—so how do we get there? The Nation’s Strikes Correspondent, Jane McAlevey explains 3 core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.
CREDITS:
Host: Jane McAlevey
Senior Producer: Ludwig Hurtado
Associate Producer: Lucy Dean-Stockton
Research: Karen Ng, Finley Muratova
Graphics: Drew Evans
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- NO SAFE PLACE TO HIDE - a response to NYC's nuclear war PSA
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- 1 year ago
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- Have we forgotten there is no safe place to hide in a nuclear war?
Inform yourself of the facts:
• Alliance for Science – What the science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war? - https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/what-the-science-says-could-humans-survive-a-nuclear-war-between-nato-and-russia/
• ICAN (The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) - https://www.icanw.org/
• PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility) - https://www.psr.org/
• Defuse Nuclear War - https://defusenuclearwar.org/
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - https://www.ippnw.org/
• Television Event (2021) - https://geni.us/televisionevent
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- OppArt: Show Me.
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- All too true.
Video by Ben Hillman.
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- After Roe: An Urgent Conversation
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- It now appears virtually certain that the Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v Wade, throwing huge swaths of the country into abortion deserts and moving the immediate fight to defend reproductive rights to the states. Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Elie Mystal, and Regina Mahone discuss what comes next and how we can best oppose the restrictions on abortion rights.
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- After Amazon: Unions, Capitalism and the Future of the Labor Movement
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- From baristas to housekeepers, from taxi drivers to Amazon workers, working people are taking on the behemoths of American capitalism. And they are winning. Why are these nascent organizing efforts succeeding? What do they mean for the future of the labor movement in America? And how can concerned citizens join together to support them?
Scholars and organizers from across the labor movement joined The Nation for this special conversation about how we can make sense of workers’ recent victories and explore strategies for building on them.
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- Art Spiegelman and Viet Thanh Nguyen: Why Banning Books Never Works
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Art Spiegelman and Viet Thanh Nguyen talk about book bans and how we can effectively oppose our country’s creeping cultural censorship.
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- Elie Mystal in conversation with Dahlia Lithwick
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Nation’s Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal joins Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick to discuss modern originalism and the importance of critiquing the Constitution’s origins.
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- OppArt: Burning Planet
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Video by Alessandra Mondolfi
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- Climate Action: How Divest Harvard Won
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Crisis Ignored: Coastal Landfills Meet Rising Seas
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- There are around 100,000 landfills in the US, around half in low-lying coastal areas—no one knows the real number because no agency has done a comprehensive survey of these toxic sites. As sea levels rise, many of these coastal landfills threaten to poison surrounding communities.
To read the full story by Dave Lindorff, visit https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coastal-landfill-climate-change/
Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
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- The Sea Is Moving In on New Jersey's Biggest Landfill
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Middlesex County Sanitary Landfill is the largest operating dump in the state. As sea levels rise, this landfill could be inundated with flood water.
Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
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- Mt. Trashmore Went From a Dump to a Park—But For How Long?
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Virginia Beach, an old municipal waste dump was turned into a public park. It's a draw for residents and visitors, but all the waste hidden away in this mound won't stay buried as sea levels rise.
Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
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- Wallace Shawn: Making Room for Art
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Anti-Imperialism in the 21st Century
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Is internationalism—once the standard for the global left—still a viable idea in today’s multipolar world? And, if so, how can it best be achieved? What would a progressive US foreign policy look like? And what lessons can be learned from Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Is intervention by the US ever justified–and if so, under what conditions? Watch the debate moderated by D.D. Guttenplan with Gilbert Achcar, Nadje Al-Ali, Phyllis Bennis, Bill Fletcher, Jr.—all deeply-informed experts on US foreign-policy, the Middle East and the global left.
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- Chloe Maxmin: How a Climate-Justice Champion Can Win in Rural America
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- COVID: Drawn from Experience
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Directed by Rafe Scobey Thal; Animated by by Luca Valente;
Produced by #MeWeSyria, and #MeWeMexico, and
#MeWeHonduras community leaders Fernando Camacho,
Nadine Hraki, Ola Ali, Sandra Hernandez, Sara Killawi,
#MeWeIntl, and Rafe Scobey Thal
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- Parenting From Prison: Chesa Boudin, Sylvia A. Harvey, and Dani McClain
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, his mother and father were radical not for their militant New Left politics but for the extraordinary lengths they took to parent him while incarcerated. When a parent commits a crime, the system overlooks their parental obligations—and the rights of the children left behind—in favor of punishment. Boudin detailed what this meant for him personally in The Nation’s first-ever special issue on parenting.
Boudin joins Sylvia A. Harvey, author of The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family, and a longtime expert on the intersection of race, class, policy, and incarceration, to share stories of parental love strong enough to scale prison walls, and to talk about how Boudin’s experience with his parents’ imprisonment has informed his groundbreaking work as San Francisco’s District Attorney.
This conversation is moderated by Dani McClain and hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel.
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- Kathryn Garcia: The Nation 2021 NYC Mayoral Forum
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Watch the full forum here: https://youtu.be/KzvV3CfaPgU
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- New York City Mayor's Race: The Nation Forum
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Featuring Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia, Scott Stringer and Maya Wiley, The Nation’s Mayoral Forum gives progressive voters an opportunity to hear some of the contenders share their vision for the future of New York City. Each candidate speaks about why their campaign deserves the support of the progressive community, and Katrina vanden Heuvel and D.D. Guttenplan moderate a short group discussion before we invite our audience to participate in a real-time Q&A session.
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- Police Lie
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- By Alessandra Mondolfi
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- Sister Helen Prejean: The Death Penalty’s Fundamental Flaws
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Jimmy Tobias: Can We Prevent the Next Pandemic?
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Jimmy Tobias, an award-winning investigative journalist, leads a crucial conversation about his months-long investigation on One Health, an international movement to address human encroachment on natural ecosystems and the possibility of future pandemics like Covid-19. He is joined by Nation Senior Editor Lizzy Ratner, and Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel.
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- Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Power and Beauty of FOIA
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Ken Klippenstein, The Nation’s Washington Editor, explains why FOIA is so important and how FOIA requests can function as invaluable journalistic tools to help hold the powerful accountable.
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- Katrín Jakobsdóttir in Conversation With John Nichols | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Alicia Garza & Elie Mystal: How to Build Movements for the 21st Century | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Elie Mystal: The Republicans are devastatingly effective.
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- 3 years ago
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- Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation, explains how we must be vigilant about protecting our rights during the corona emergency, how Republicans are taking advantage of this moment to target abortion access, and how critical the 2020 election is to taking back the courts. (He even threatens to address parenting without murdering your children or getting fired from your job!)
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- Rick Steves: Travel as a Political Act
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- 3 years ago
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- This conversation was part of The Nation's first-ever Festival, featuring speakers like Naomi Klein, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Garza, Rev. William Barber, and many more! The entire four-day video archive is available at www.thenation.com/festival
North American Travel expert Rick Steves joins frequent Nation Contributor Sasha Abramsky to discuss why and how travel can be a political act, traveling mindfully and ethically, and the hidden joys of isolation amidst Covid-19.
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- Calvin Trillin: Happy Thanksgiving! Serve Some Spaghetti Carbonara
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Tokata Iron Eyes: Landback!
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- This conversation was part of The Nation's first-ever Festival, featuring speakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Garza, Rev. William Barber, and many more. The entire four-day video archive is available at www.thenation.com/festival.
Lakota Sioux Standing Rock Activists Tokata Iron Eyes and Chase Iron Eyes, and Journalist Naomi Klein joined moderator and Nation Contributor Zoë Carpenter for an urgent discussion about Indigenous rights, the climate crisis, environmental activism, and what's next beyond Standing Rock.
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- Ken Klippenstein | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Bill McKibben: The Future of the Planet | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Jamaal Bowman: Legislating Radical Change
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A first-time congressional candidate with a fiery progressive and anti-establishment message, Jamaal Bowman unseated long-time incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel in the democratic primary for New York’s 16th congressional district this past July, and on Nov. 3, he is expected to become a new member of the House of Representatives. With the most critical election of our lifetimes marked with disorder and uncertainty, Bowman joins Nation director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel to discuss what’s next for the growing progressive insurgency, and what we can do to ensure the progressive policies that can make the biggest difference in everyday lives win out in November—no matter the result.
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- Insurrection 2021: Melissa Harris-Perry, Elie Mystal & Eric Foner
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Capitol riot by supporters of President Trump, aimed at preventing the counting of electoral votes, revealed the dark side of the history of American democracy, as this was hardly the first effort to overturn extralegally the results of a democratic election. Watch this conversation on how the Trumpian insurrection has revealed the dangers from the enemy within and the urgency with which the Biden Administration must pursue an accounting.
System Check podcast host Melissa Harris-Perry, historian Eric Foner, and Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal join our urgent and timely discussion, hosted by Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and moderated by National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols.
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- Bernie Sanders in Conversation With John Nichols | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich | The Nation Festival
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- 3 years ago
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- Sochie Nnaemeka: How to Win in November
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Sochie Nnaemeka, the Director of the Working Families Party in New York, explains how and why progressive insurgents can win in November. She’ll discuss the party’s agenda and what she sees as the most critical progressive priorities ahead of the most important election of our lives.
The daughter of Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnaemeka was born and raised in New York and attended Yale University, where she began to organize with a local union of cafeteria and custodial workers. This past December, Nnaemeka became the director of the Working Families Party (WFP) in New York, making her the new face of a group with a crucial role in the state’s progressive movement, backing policy reforms and left-wing candidates.
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- Ari Berman: Threats to the 2020 Election
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- 3 years ago
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- Can the 2020 election be stolen? Will voter suppression affect the outcome? Voting rights expert and senior reporter at Mother Jones Ari Berman discusses how to protect the right to vote in the most important election of our lifetimes and the strategy behind President Trump’s attacks on the U.S. Postal Service and threats to deploy armed agents at polling places. A former senior contributing writer for The Nation, he has written extensively on American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics, including his seminal book Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and commentator on MSNBC and NPR.
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- Los Angeles Protests: Past and Present with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The first big uprising against police violence in Los Angeles came in 1965 in Watts. Today's Black Lives Matter protests are far broader, but the challenges are no less daunting. In their widely-anticipated new history of 1960s Los Angeles, "Set the Night on Fire," award-winning radical historian of Southern California Mike Davis and Nation contributing writer Jon Wiener trace the city's turbulent era of rebellion and police brutality and show how it connects us to the present moment with people out in the streets again.
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- John Nichols: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party
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- 3 years ago
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- Nation National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols joins Katrina vanden Heuvel and had a vital conversation about the future of the fight for equality and justice.
Nation National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols offers possible answers in his hotly anticipated new book The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party.Democrats once dreamed the biggest dreams: of thwarting the politics of hatred and defeating the threat of American fascism, of achieving economic and social and racial justice and peace and prosperity. This is history. But it need not be history alone. Could something like the New Deal be done again? Could it be done better? Could talk of a Green New Deal move from a speaker’s platform to the program of government and then to the reality of a nation?
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- Chris Hayes: America on the Brink
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- 3 years ago
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- Chris Hayes joins Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel for an exclusive conversation about the state of American politics in the midst of a pandemic, widespread unrest, and a presidential election.
Hayes is an Editor-at-Large of The Nation, and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. The author of two books, A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Hayes has written on a wide variety of political and social issues, from union organizing and economic democracy, to the intersection of politics and technology.
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- Rep. Katie Porter: Putting Working People First
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- 3 years ago
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- Rep. Katie Porter leads an urgent conversation about the critical policies needed to help American workers in the wake of COVID-19. As the representative of the 45th Congressional District and a member of the House Financial Services Committee, she's asked tough questions of bank CEOs and administration officials to hold them accountable to the American people. She has also been a key supporter of legislation to reduce the influence of dark money in politics and restore ethics to Washington, and in this fraught moment, has been fighting for federal money to reopen schools safely.
