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.
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
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
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