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.)
Hope for Democrats: Ro Khanna; Amy Wilentz on Haiti & John Nichols on Trump & the Virus
Biden's Pick for the Supremes: Meyerson; Great Migration: Wilkerson; on Organizing: Jayapal
Breyer Will Retire: Harold Meyerson; Gustavo Arellano: the OC; & Ellen Schrecker: the '60s
What Dems Need Now: Harold Meyerson; plus Steve Phillips on Beto & Dave Lindorff on Atom Spies
Inflation & Joe Biden: Harold Meyerson; plus Mike Davis on Omicron & Martha Jones on 1619
Voting Rights after Jan. 6: Harold Meyerson, plus Eric Foner & Henry Louis Gates
2021: Gary Younge on the Insurrection, Mike Davis on the Pandemic, plus Rick Perlstein
Why Trump Won't be the Candidate: David Cay Johnston; plus Amy Wilentz & Tom Lutz
Bad news for Biden: Harold Meyerson; Alfred McCoy on Climate Change, Kristina Wong on Mask Making
Stacey Abrams: Harold Meyerson; Gary Younge on Josephine Baker, and Father Greg Boyle
Unions vs. Amazon: Harold Meyerson; Omicron & Inequality: Gregg Gonsalves; Beatles: Gustavo Arellano
Kyle Rittenhouse, Republicans, and Vigilantes: John Nichols, plus Eric Foner
Politics from Glasgow to Texas: Harold Meyerson, plus Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell
Build Back Better gets closer: Harold Meyerson; plus Francine Prose and Ella Taylor
Democrats in Defeat: Harold Meyerson; The Underground Railroad: Eric Foner
The threat from Manchin & Sinema: Harold Meyerson; Amy Wilentz on Haiti, Adam Shatz on Coltrane
Dems scale back big plans: Harold Meyerson; plus Dave Zirin on 'The Kaepernick Effect'
Winning in 2022: Harold Meyerson; Draft Resistance: Bruce Dancis; "Pauli Murray": Ella Taylor
Biden Backs the Left: Harold Meyerson, plus Melina Abdulla on the LAPD, & Louis Menand
Reconciliation: The Solution--Harold Meyerson, plus Carol Sobel on the LAPD, and Occupy at 10
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