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From the Editors

Remember, Remember, It’s All About November. And Coronavirus.

Joe Biden’s resounding victory over Bernie Sanders reflects voter fatigue and voter fear, but also confidence in the establishment

March 10, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Pryzbyla pointed out that farmers in the Upper Peninsula, many of whom voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and then for Donald Trump, are now going bankrupt because of Trump’s immigration policies. The cherries for which they are so famous rotted in the fields last summer. But Sanders’s socialism scared them ...

Remember, Remember, It’s All About November. And Coronavirus.

Interviews

Permission To Be Yourself: An Interview With Mira Jacob

The National Book Critics Circle finalist for her Autobiography, Good Talk

March 6, 2020 • by Mira Jacob and Ramya Ramana

--- Ramya Ramana [RR]: So first I want to say thank you for writing this, from the bottom of my heart because it was just so refreshing to read a story that I could see myself in, and so much of your journey. I felt like I see myself and I ...

Permission To Be Yourself: An Interview With Mira Jacob

From the Editors

Joeypalooza!

The Biden campaign comes roaring back to give Bernie Sanders a cold shower on Super Tuesday

March 3, 2020 • by Claire Potter

“What he was, was tough from the neck up,” Richard Ben Cramer wrote about Biden in What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992), “but it wasn’t just fights: if you could run,” one of Biden’s friends would tell you, “Joe Biden could run faster. If you had ...

History

Fifty Years of Social Research

Arien Mack reflects on her half-century stewardship of The New School’s flagship quarterly journal

March 1, 2020 • by Arien Mack and James Miller

James Miller [JM]: Let’s start at the beginning. What year did you come to The New School for Social Research? Arien Mack [AM]: 1966. I had just gotten my Ph.D. JM: At that time, how much did you know about the legacy, the traditions of The New School? Did you know anything at all ...

From the Editors

The 2,000-Year-Old Men

February 26, 2020 • by Claire Potter

We have had this guilty thought long before Mayor Pete articulated it for us in his unique tone, one in which he manages to convey optimism, despair and his own brand of aggression simultaneously. Lately, as Sanders’s actual policies seem to be impressing more and more voters, and an extraordinary ...

From the Editors

Where Have You Been, Michael Bloomberg?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you — or not

February 19, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Of course, New Hampshire, and the Nevada caucuses that are coming up on Saturday, February 22 have been overshadowed by an elephant that has been lurking in the room for weeks. Former Republican New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has, to date, spent over $300 million in advertising, has ...

From the Editors

When Steve Kornacki Has to Scroll Down the Big Board to Find You…

…You don’t have a ticket out of New Hampshire

February 12, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Settling in for the long night that all elections seem to have become now, we recalled, as if it had occurred in another country, the 2016 New Hampshire Primary that changed everything. Sanders drubbed Hillary Clinton by 22 points, something that had not seemed possible. Donald Trump beat John Kasich, which seemed just -- ...

When Steve Kornacki Has to Scroll Down the Big Board to Find You…

From the Editors

The App That Ate the Iowa Caucuses

As we head into the New Hampshire primary, politics – and political media – need a reboot

February 4, 2020 • by Claire Potter

One thing that was clear is that our system for broadcasting elections needs overhauling. Election night shows are over-reliant on provided endless amounts of trivial information, in the name of context, that actually distracts audiences from taking in, or thinking about, the bigger picture. In fact, the MSNBC team seemed desperate to persuade us ...

From the Editors

49 People, 33 Doors

Partisans are slogging through the snow in Iowa and New Hampshire

January 29, 2020 • by Claire Potter

The first primary is, of course, in the great state of Iowa, a place our volunteer has visited exactly once, to give a talk at a university, and had a lovely time. This week, Iowa is being bombarded with volunteers, journalists, camera crews, and a great many surrogates for the Senators who are ...

From the Editors

Impeached Forever

As of this week, the United States is still a country of laws

January 22, 2020 • by Claire Potter

As we go to press this week, all 50 United States Senators have spent the entire day in the same room together, something that almost never happens. In fact during lulls when they are not voting on anything, Senators can go for days or weeks without fully convening; Senate speeches ...

From the Editors

#Megxit

Is it a coincidence that a pair of Windsors are crossing the pond as the effort to topple King Donald of Trump intensifies?

January 15, 2020 • by Claire Potter

By now everyone knows that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (aka, Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle) have announced that they are leaving “the Firm,” and who is surprised? Everyone agrees that it was a beautiful wedding, but the fairy tale ending, in which the House of Windsor merged seamlessly ...

From the Editors

State of Emergency

As Donald Trump wags the dog, we try to remember where and how all this violence started

January 8, 2020 • by Claire Potter

There are days when it seems like we have been living in a state of emergency since September 11, 2011. Maybe it started even before that: on August 20, 1998, President William Jefferson Clinton, in the middle of an investigation into his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, initiated something ...