Stormy Daniels’ testimony lasted for eight hours. Which is eight hours longer than Donald Trump.

The single word that might define a second Biden term.

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When Ai-jen Poo got President Biden to headline her rally for care workers, she couldn't get a single senator booked on cable news to talk about the issue.

Care is the infrastructure of our lives. It's time to show media and political elites you care about it.

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New interview: Veteran labor organizer Ai-jen Poo on why 'care' is the big idea that can unite, and transform, a country at the breaking point.

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Not gonna lie, I'm proud The True American and Winners Take All, by Anand Giridharadas made this New York Times Books list.

But I want young writers to know that the former was rejected by every publisher but one, and the latter I re-read just before pub day and thought it was...fine.

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If you want a view of the campus protests that is able to hold complexity and thoughts in tension, here you go.

'My work..was heavily influenced by Hegelian & Freudian...thinking: an expectation that conflict is necessary for any important change & that unconscious motivations are always in play in crises. To put it simply: I expect conflict, & I expect acting out' the.ink/p/wesleyan-mic…

Thoughtful interview by ⁦The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas⁩ with Wesleyan University leader Michael Roth the.ink/p/wesleyan-mic…

'People who had 'God on their side' have done lots of damage—as will people who think they have 'history on their side' today.' -Michael S Roth in a challenging talk w/The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas. Leaders at places like Harvard & MIT, read it. You CAN be 'evenhanded' AND protect student protesters.

New interview: We spoke to Wesleyan leader Michael S Roth about how the campus story distracts from Gaza itself, his logic in avoiding arrests, the real antisemitism issue he sees, and how protests could help elect Trump -- or be smartly marshaled against him.
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“Black people have faced every possible constraint and barrier. It is so important for economic reasons for this community, which is an underinvested asset in this country, to have the kind of wealth cushion that turns people's dreams and aspirations into reality.”…

Reparations aren’t only about righting historical wrongs, argues Heather McGhee.

They are also an investment of “seed capital for the nation that we are becoming.”

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WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.