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How to live under Trump II
 • Anand Giridharadas
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The opposite of fascism
 • Anand Giridharadas
60
ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
 • Anand Giridharadas
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Why is the Democratic Party ghosting us?
 • Anand Giridharadas
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I was going to be brave
 • Anand Giridharadas
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ESSAY: A cure for Trumpism: Radical empathy and radical change
 • Anand Giridharadas
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WATCH: Call it a “concentration camp”
Anat Shenker-Osorio talks about how to resist, refuse, and ridicule the Trump regime — and own the conversation in order to win
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Anand Giridharadas
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
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Too soon?
Don't politicize a tragedy, they say. But tragedies are, all too often, political. Can Democrats and the media walk that line?
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The Ink
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1:01:27
WATCH: Bonfire of affordability
The Ink Book Club discusses Karim Dimechkie's "The Uproar" — a social novel of NYC for the Mamdani era
 • 
Anand Giridharadas
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Leigh Haber
17
NOTEBOOK: I tried to draw Stonehenge
In which I try to draw again
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Anand Giridharadas
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43:24
WATCH: What kind of great-grandparents do we want to be?
Anand joins journalist Terry Moran to talk about the Texas floods, connecting the abstractions of politics to personal tragedy, and how to talk about…
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Anand Giridharadas
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Terry Moran
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Give me your tired, your poor
Where did our compassion go?
 • 
Leigh Haber
10
48:53
WATCH: How universities can fight back
Wesleyan’s president, Michael Roth, explains what it is Trump so fears about higher ed, why his attack on it is an existential threat, and why courage…
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Anand Giridharadas
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Michael S. Roth
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Can the press meet the moment?
When news organizations are on defense, who calls the shots?
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The Ink
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ESSAY: A biblical flood, a girl's death, and a great-grandfather's legacy
As the ravages of climate change worsen, what kind of ancestors will we be?
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Anand Giridharadas
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