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The widespread opposition to the construction of data centers is a huge opportunity for liberals and Democrats, says author and organizer Astra Taylor. In the latest episode of _Right Now,_ Taylor argues that Americans are frustrated about data…
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Graham Platner won Maine’s Senate primary as expected. But the various controversies around him have Democrats deeply concerned about his general election prospects. In the latest edition of _Right Now,_ Billy Kobin, a political reporter at the _Portland Press Herald,_ says that…
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Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalist professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that it’s critical that journalists and media organizations stop pretending that there is a neutral way to cover the news that expresses no underlying values.…
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Former Georgia state representative and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says that conservatives are right to target diversity, inclusion, and equity because implementing those concepts forces white people, men, and other traditionally dominant…
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In the 2022 and 2024 elections, Republicans successfully used the issues of crime and immigration to cast Democrats as insufficiently concerned about the safety of average Americans, according to Insha Rahman, president of the Vera Institute of…
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The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping business, education, and other sectors of life, including politics. Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning economic policy group,…
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Officials in Greenland are worried that President Trump will move forward on his push to increase the United States’s role there around the time of the president’s birthday on June 14, according to The New York Times. Elizabeth Saunders, a Columbia University political scientist who…
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The cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s program on CBS isn’t the end of entertainment shows with a political bent on network tv. In the latest edition of _Right Now_ , Meredith Conroy, a political scientist at the California State University, San…
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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms overwhelmingly won the gubernatorial Democratic primary in Georgia on Tuesday, avoiding a runoff. If she wins in November, Bottoms will be the first Black woman ever elected governor of a state. In the latest edition of _Right Now_ ,…
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The unfairness created by Republican gerrymandering in states across the country ahead of the midterm elections is the latest sign of the deep flaws of the American political system. In the latest edition of _Right Now_ , political scientists Lee Drutman of the think tank New…
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We are already in the midst of the 2028 Democratic primary fight. No one has formally declared their candidacy, but former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Representative Ro Khanna, and others are traveling around the country and being…
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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s _Louisiana v. Callais_ ruling, states in the South are rushing to eliminate their majority-Black congressional districts. Tennessee passed legislation to do that on Thursday, and it could happen soon in Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina…
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California’s gubernatorial race has never had a clear front-runner, says David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect and a resident of the state. In the latest edition of Right Now, Dayen explains why the race has been so…
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The Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision on gerrymandering was the latest example of its disingenuous approach to racial issues, says Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at Columbia University and UCLA. Crenshaw argues that the court’s six…
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Governor Janet Mills’s decision to suspend her campaign effectively hands the Democratic nomination for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat to Graham Platner. In the latest edition of _Right Now,_ Alex Seitz-Wald, deputy editor of the Midcoast Villager, explains how Platner surged in the…
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The news media’s coverage after October 7, 2003, defended and legitimized Israel’s destruction of Gaza and killing of tens of thousands of civilians, says journalist Adam Johnson. In his new book, _How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in…
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Elizabeth Saunders, a political scientist at Columbia University who studies U.S foreign policy, says that President Trump’s only choices to resolve the war in Iran are “humiliation or escalation.” Escalation is the kind of total destruction of Iran that the president has hinted at…
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The frustrations of once-dominant racial and ethnic groups about losing power is reshaping politics around the world, including the United States. In his latest book “Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age,” author and Howard University…
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A year ago, “abundance” was being widely discussed in Democratic Party circles. The concept is essentially that liberals should concentrate on reducing unnecessary regulations and bottlenecks to make it easier to build houses, public transit, and…
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Iran and the United States reached a ceasefire this week. It came after Trump threatened a “whole civilization will die tonight” as negotiations stalled. Trump’s bluster aside, journalist Ishaan Tharoor says that the president cut a deal from a weak…
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Conservatives attacking the mainstream as “liberal” and biased against them didn’t start with Donald Trump or even Richard Nixon. In his new book, Making the Media Liberal, author A.J. Bauer says conservative mobilization against the media first…
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Democrats are pushing a variety of new tax ideas. Party officials at the state and federal levels are proposing big hikes on income taxes for the wealthy. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have rolled out new versions of their wealth tax…
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The war between the United States and Israel and Iran has now lasted a month. The Trump administration is negotiating with Iran to end the war, but also threatening a major escalation if no agreement is reached. Ishaan Tharoor, a veteran foreign…
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Even with Democrats doing very well in recent elections and poised to flip the U.S. House and perhaps even the Senate in November, center-left pundits continue to complain that the party has not moderated enough, particularly on issues such as…
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Frustration with the political establishment isn’t only about economic issues and won’t be solved simply by focusing on Gross Domestic Product growth, inflation, or affordability. That’s the argument of Justin Gest, a policy and government professor…
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The United States and Israel’s war against Iran has now been going on for about three weeks. President Trump sounds increasingly frustrated that Iran has not surrendered. In the latest edition of _Right Now,_ Matt Duss, executive vice president of…
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President Trump is taking all the steps that autocrats and dictators typically do: getting charges filed against his political enemies, invading other nations, sending the military into areas that resist him. But he’s been blunted in a number of ways. Charges against former FBI…
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There is growing skepticism of billionaires, particularly among Democrats. But Tom Steyer, a billionaire running for governor of California, says he should not be lumped in with people like Elon Musk. Steyer argues that his spending tens of millions on liberal causes such as…
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Fascist leaders nearly always try to invade other countries, says University of Toronto philosophy professor Jason Stanley, author of the 2018 book _How Fascism Works._ So President Trump’s decisions to overthrow the governments in Venezuela and Iran…
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The United States and Israel started a military offensive in Iran on Saturday morning. Iran then launched retaliatory strikes. Elizabeth Saunders, a political scientist at Columbia University who studies U.S. foreign policy, and Kian Tajbakhsh, a New York University international…