The Supreme Court has decided NOT to challenge rent control – a huge victory for the progressive renters' rights movements across the country. Also, the Supreme Court will leave in place the diversity-oriented admissions plan for Thomas Jefferson High School – Harold Meyerson comments.
Next: A political battle is underway in Los Angeles, where landlords, multi-millionaires, and the police are trying to defeat the leading progressive on the city council. Their key issues are protection for renters and new taxes on mansions. Peter Dreier has that story.
Plus: The latest US moves in Haiti are framed in democratic rhetoric but are deeply anti-democratic in their effect. Amy Wilentz is on the podcast to explain. She’s written two books about Haiti, most recently the award-winning Farewell Fred Voodoo.
Portland and protest: David Cole, plus Ella Taylor on TV and Mike Davis on LA in the Sixties
Fascism comes to Portland: Harold Meyerson; Disarm the police; Guttenplan; Ella Taylor on TV
Defund the LAPD--Kelly Lytle Hernandez; BLM is everywhere, Amy Wilentz on Ivanka and Ella Taylor
Why the US is the world's sickest country: Meyerson; Virus-time TV: Taylor; Sandra Bland Remembered
The Coronavirus Spike: David Dayen; Michelle Goodwin: Racism in Mpls.; Ella Taylor: "Babylon Berlin"
Trump After Tulsa: Meyerson; The Police vs. The People: Kelley; Bad Cop Movies: Taylor
The People vs. The Police: Armour; Ivanka Watch: Wilentz; Spike Lee's "Da Five Bloods": Taylor
Not About Trump, About Us w/Lithwick; America in Revolt w/Mystal; Criterion Virus-time TV w/Taylor
Protest, Police, Martial Law & Trump w/Meyerson; "Reaganland" w/Perlstein; Virus-Time TV w/Taylor
Tara Reade vs. the Evidence: Katha Pollitt; "Shirley": Ella Taylor; "Kochland": Christopher Leonard
The Labor Movement after the Virus: Harold Meyerson; plus Greil Marcus on The Great Gatsby
The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party: Nichols; Those Trump Kids: Wilentz; SCOTUS: Cohen
Coronavirus Updates: Mike Davis on the World; David Dayen on the USPS & Medicare; John Powers on TV
Joseph Stiglitz: The Virus & the Economy; plus Harold Meyerson and Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mike Davis: Coronavirus Around the World; plus Harold Meyerson and Barbara Ehrenreich
The Good News from Wisconsin: John Nichols; plus Harold Meyerson on Bernie and Biden
John Nichols: Wisconsin votes--or tries to; plus Bob Edelman on Cold War Sports and Laila Lalami
Republicans and the Virus Economy: Harold Meyerson; plus E.J. Dionne, Katha Pollitt & Gail Collins
What's Wrong in the Economic Stimulus: David Dayen, plus Paul Krugman and Rebecca Solnit
Coronavirus & Elections: John Nichols; plus Melina Abdullah on Black Lives Matter & the Coronavirus
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