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Why Walz Helps Harris Win PA — and Beyond

A Pennsylvania history professor on how the Minnesota coach-turned-governor could be the key to making America nice again

By John Hinshaw
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Ali Velshi Inside Project 2025’s Plan for the Department of Justice

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks to The Nation's Elie Mystal about how another Trump administration might damage one of America's most important institutions

By Ali Velshi

Is Josh Shapiro Brat Enough for Kamala Harris?

Trump’s true legacy has been to retire conventional wisdom and turn politics into pop culture spectacle. Does our Governor help Harris answer in kind?

By Larry Platt
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Ali Velshi on What Project 2025 Means For An Independent Press

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks to Vox Media's Zack Beauchamp about how another Trump administration might damage one of America's most important institutions

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Lays Out the Stakes of the 2024 Election

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member says it's OK to be concerned about Biden's age. But the larger concern is democracy itself

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Compares the Supreme Court to Tinkerbell

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member warns that SCOTUS's failure to maintain public trust is an enormous threat to a functioning government and the very survival of our nation

By Ali Velshi
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The Bobby Womack School of Good Governance

In part two of How To Really Run a City, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter hear more rhetorical gems from bestselling author and public intellectual Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, including Dyson’s soulful election theories

By Lauren McCutcheon
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Is the Latino Vote in Play in PA?

In The Coming Latino Century, author Mike Madrid says Democrats and Republicans both take the increasingly influential voting bloc for granted at their peril

By John Hinshaw
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Protest World vs. Political World

The former communications director to the late Sen. Harris Wofford argues there's too much at stake in this election for educated young people not to think critically about the history they risk repeating

By David M. Stone
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Ali Velshi Reminds Us of Draconian Restrictions to Immigration a Hundred Years Ago

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member reminds us that we've been here before, restricting immigration and deporting immigrants is dangerous to our future and economy

By Ali Velshi