[ad_1] Politics / August 22, 2024 The Nation warned readers early on that the 1968 convention would be a debacle. Ad Policy Protesters clash with the National Guard outside the Democratic National Convention on August 28, 1968.(CBS Photo Archive) With the Democratic National Convention wrapping up in Chicago, many have pointed to parallels with the […]

[ad_1] Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 22, 2024 The Democratic convention’s giddy vibe shift is shadowed by ongoing war and a failure to hear Palestinian voices. Ad Policy A pro-Palestinian protest on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.(Photo by Fatih Aktas / Anadolu via Getty Images) This year’s Democratic National Convention is more […]

[ad_1] Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she arrives to speak on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, on Aug. 22. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reported […]

[ad_1] August 22, 2024 What Trump assumed barely a month ago would be an essentially uncontested victory has been transformed into his worst nightmare. Ad Policy Vice President Kamala Harris during the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22, 2021. (Al Drago / Getty Images) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, made 12 misleading or lacking-in-context statements during her speech at the Democratic National Convention last week. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images There were about a dozen statements that Vice President Kamala Harris made during her roughly 40-minute acceptance […]

[ad_1] For Melissa Todd, that moment came after she was pressured to limit the care of a patient in crisis. A psychologist from Eugene, Oregon, Todd was treating a young woman with a history of trauma whose father had died unexpectedly. When the patient came to Todd, she was often unable to sleep more than […]

[ad_1] Activism / August 22, 2024 Even after their request to feature a Palestinian speaker at the DNC was rejected, delegates say they are staying and fighting. Ad Policy Uncommitted delegates stage a sit-in outside the United Center in Chicago on August 21, 2024.(ABC Chicago) One by one, the delegates from the Uncommitted National Movement […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 23, 2024 The vile insults hurled toward Tim Walz’s and Kamala Harris’s children are a part of the right wing’s generational war on the young. Ad Policy Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic vice-presidential nominee, second right, joined by his daughter. Hope, from left, his son. Gus, and his wife. […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 23, 2024 As she accepted the Democrats’ nomination for president on the last night of the DNC, Kamala Harris showed a newfound confidence in her record. Ad Policy Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at her keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Jack Boczarski / Anadolu via […]