One of the great progressive victories last November, along with the mid-term Congressional races, was the vote in Florida to restore voting rights to people who had been convicted of felonies and served their sentences–1.4 million people.  But the voting rights news from Florida since then has not been so good--Sasha Abramsky explains. 

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Rashida Tlaib is one of the two the Muslim women elected to the House. John Nichols spoke with her for the “Next Left” podcast, our sister podcast at The Nation.  Tlaib, who represents Detroit, was born there; her parents are Palestinian immigrants, and she a long and deep engagement with progressive politics in that city.  In this segment John introduces clips from his interview.

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At a time when several states have passed draconian new abortion restrictions, you don’t have to be a woman to stand up for reproductive rights: Katha Pollitt talks about abortion and men.  

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Every Democratic primary candidate with more than 1 per cent in the polls has signed the Indivisible Pledge to support the Democratic winner, with one exception: Joe Biden.  Why not?  Ezra Levin comments—he’s co-founder of Indivisible, the nationwide network of grassroots progressive groups.

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The British should extradite Julian Assange to Sweden for the investigation of rape charges against him, but neither the Swedes nor the Brits should extradite him to the US – because the new “espionage” charges against him are political, a threat to freedom of the press and to all journalists and publishers.  Bruce Shapiro explains; he's a longtime contributing editor at The Nation.

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We know the world is getting hotter and the storms are getting bigger and the seas are rising.  What we need to know now is not what climate change will do, but rather what we should do—because, for us, climate change is a political problem.

 Alyssa Battistoni comments. 

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Opponents of Medicare for All say it would be impossibly expensive.  Exactly how are we going to pay for it?  Robert Pollin of U Mass Amherst explains; he’s one of 219 economists who just signed an open letter to Congress urging passage of Medicare for All.

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John Nichols talks about Justin Amash, the first Republican member of Congress to say that Trump has committed impeachable offenses—and also about The Nation’s new podcast, which he hosts – it’s called “Next Left,” and the premiere episode, out now, features Ilhan Omar.

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There are 1,000 redactions in the 448 pages of the Mueller report, individual names and entire pages that we are not allowed to see.  They are part of a larger problem of government secrecy which started long before Trump and which is now threatening to cripple our democracy—Karen Greenberg explains.

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Nation columnist Laila Lalami talks about her new novel, “The Other Americans,” about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant in a small town in California.  It’s a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story.

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