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.
Reform the Media | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Young Americans for Freedom Hates Freedom | Time of Monsters
150 Years of Black Activism In Sports | Edge of Sports
The War on Black Studies, plus Hollywood on Strike | Start Making Sense
You're Wrong About Term Limits | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Start Making Sense: Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat, plus Supreme Court Wins and Losses
Edge of Sports: Solomon Hughes on playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 'Winning Time’
Time of Monsters: Moms For Liberty and Its Media Apologists
Elie Mystal's Court Packing Plan | Contempt of Court
Edge of Sports: 1968 Olympian Dr. John Carlos on the Legacy of the Black Athletic Revolt
Start Making Sense: Summer of Strikes, plus After Affirmative Action: Jane McAlevy on Labor, John Nichols on Education
Time of Monsters: Moira Donegan on the Reactionary Vision of the Supreme Court
Packing the Court! | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Start Making Sense: The Battle on the Abortion Borderland, plus RFK Jr.
Edge of Sports: Aaron Maybin: "Athletes aren't superheroes, we're human beings"
Time of Monsters: The State of the Left in Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua
Welcome to Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal!
Start Making Sense: How Democrats can win Working-Class Voters; how Doctors are Fighting—against Hospitals
Edge of Sports: W. Kamau Bell, the reluctant optimist
Time of Monsters: Establishment Economics Under Siege
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