John Nichols reports on Monday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa, and explains why Iowa is the state with the biggest shift from blue to red between Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2020.
Also: The new film "American Fiction," starring Jeffrey Wright, takes up the question, do Black writers have to "write Black"? The film is based on the novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett, which is considerably wilder and more uncompromising than the film. John Powers comments—he’s critic at Large on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Plus: Fintan O’Toole’s personal history of Ireland since the fifties: how a country dominated by a corrupt Catholic church came to legalize gay marriage and abortion — by referendum. His much-honored ‘personal history’ of Ireland, titled “We Don’t Know Ourselves,” is out now in paperback. (Originally recorded in February, 2023.)
Trump and the Armed Mob: Harold Meyerson; Evangelicals and Jan. 6: Sarah Posner
The Hearings on Trump's Crimes: John Nichols; plus Joan Walsh on Sex Ed
Jan. 6 Revelations: Harold Meyerson; Voters and Progressive Prosecutors: Peter Dreier
LA Primaries: Harold Meyerson; Abortion: Katha Pollitt; 'Bad Mexicans': Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Cops in LA Politics: Harold Meyerson; Abortion rights: Katha Pollitt; "La Nijinska": Lynn Garafola
Abortion in the midterms: Harold Meyerson; Haiti in the NYTimes: Amy Wilentz; plus Hunter S Thompson
Harold Meyerson and John Nichols on the primaries, plus Chesa Boudin on Progressive DAs
Politics & Abortion Rights: Harold Meyerson & Amy Littlefield, plus Rebecca Solnit: People change
Democracy Summer: Harold Meyerson; Ukrainian Refugees: David Nasaw; Margo Jefferson's new memoir
Progressives in Primaries: Alan Minsky; Amazon Workers: Jane McAlevey; Happiness: Joshua Holland
Democrats: Michael Kazin: Ketanji Brown Jackson: Michele Goodwin; Cops & courts: Erwin Chemerinsky
Inflation Blame: Harold Meyerson; The Sheriff: Gustavo Arellano; Ukraine: Anatol Lieven
Amazon workers: Harold Meyerson; EJ Dionne & Miles Rapaport: Voting; Peter Dreier: Baseball
Biden's Budget w/out Build Back Better: Harold Meyerson; Student Debt: Astra Taylor
Biden's Tasks Now: Harold Meyerson; Confirmation Hearings: Fishkin & Forbath; Jan. 6: Jamie Raskin
Biden, Zelensky, & Putin: Harold Meyerson; plus Bhaskar Sunkara and Katha Pollitt
Elie Mystal: Blacks and the Constitution; plus Eric Foner on slaveholders in Congress, & Eyal Press
After Biden's State of the Union: Harold Meyerson; Katrina vanden Heuvel: Ukraine; plus Jeet Heer
Republicans and Ukraine: Harold Meyerson; Amy Wilentz on Paul Farmer; Ahilan A. on immigration
Ukraine and the Left: Harold Meyerson; Trump and the Republicans: John Nichols
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