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Political activists

Free Country

Permitless carry and the new gun-rights extremism

Lip Service

From a photograph tweeted in August by Christian Climate Action of Tim Hewes, an Anglican priest, at the News Corp. offices in London. Hewes sewed his lips together to protest the…

What’s in a Vote?

by Danielle Allen, Jamelle Bouie, Jason Brennan, Sarah Smarsh, Astra Taylor,

Electoral politics in an ailing democracy

The Sanctuary

by Wes Enzinna,

Life in a cop-free zone

Who Are Those Damned Yellow French?

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,Translated by Madison Mainwaring,

“Who, save for the little barons of Wall Street, believes in the progressive virtues of capitalism?”

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

It’s My Party

by Andrew Cockburn,

The Democrats struggle to rise from the ashes

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

The Fall and Rise of Occupy Wall Street

by Jeff Madrick,

A year and a half after the takeover of Zuccotti Park there exists a widespread conviction that Occupy Wall Street ultimately failed, and that it did so for lack of…