Taming the Digital Juggernaut
Reading Time: 19 minutes While politics seems to be the only topic we’re paying attention to, technology may be the one that’s more important. A talk with author Cory Doctorow.
Proof Positive of the Winner-Take-All Economy
Reading Time: 17 minutes An examination of the cumulative effect of four decades of stalled income growth and how as a result, 90 percent of workers gave $2.5 trillion of cumulative income to the top 10 percent since the mid-1970s.
An Expert Calls Out Trump on COVID-19
Reading Time: 20 minutes As the bodies pile up, so does the misinformation — which in turn leads to more bodies. Yet, there’s hope, if people would only listen to science. But will they?
Up Close and Personal with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown
Reading Time: 12 minutes Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) shares his passion and hope that progressive causes and the institution of the US Senate can still flourish.
Is This Any Way to Vote?
Reading Time: 23 minutes The simple and quaint past way of voting is over. It’s a brave new world and the authors of the new WhoWhatWhy e-book help us understand it.
Could Tripling Our Population Make Us Great Again?
Reading Time: 14 minutes Matt Yglesias makes the jaw-dropping argument that 1 billion Americans would make us a better, stronger, and more competitive country.
Vote Counting, the ‘Blue Shift,’ and Electoral ‘Delay’
Reading Time: 22 minutes Law Professor and election expert Edward Foley on how to understand the election results of 2020, and how long it may take them to come into focus.
What’s the Matter With Populism?
Reading Time: 18 minutes The author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? tries to re-energize and redefine “populism” — which he sees as the most misunderstood movement of our time.
Fox News — A Fair and Balanced Look
Reading Time: 18 minutes A look at Fox News, its power and its stars, stripped of the usual anger and hyperbole. A conversation with Brian Stelter.
Will He Go?
Reading Time: 17 minutes The 78 days between Election Day and inauguration may be the most trying in our nation’s history. Will Trump accept the results, and even if he finally does, at what cost to the country?