For years Elizabeth Warren has been talking about how the political system is rigged by the rich and powerful.  But suddenly her position seems almost mainstream among Democrats--almost every contender for the Democratic nomination is rejecting corporate PAC money.  George Zornick, The Nation's Washington editor, has our report.

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Dahlia Lithwick talks about the numerous challenges to Trump’s “national emergency”—the constitutional issues, the political issues, and the dangers of treating as normal his rambling, fact-free, egomaniacal performance in the Rose Garden announcing his “emergency.”  Dahlia writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast ‘Amicus.’

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California’s resistance to Donald Trump: USC Professor Manuel Pastor explains the past, the present, and the future of the fights over climate justice and immigration between the biggest state and the worst president.  His new book is “State of Resistance: What California's Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America's Future.”

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Peace in Afghanistan?  Trump says it’s close – and Antony Loewenstein says it will bring massive corruption around mining the minerals of that country—and do nothing to help local communities.

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In 2016 Bernie ran on domestic issues almost exclusively. This time around, if he runs—and it looks like he will--he’s going to say more about foreign policy—a lot more. David Klion explains; he’s profiled Bernie’s foreign policy advisor, Matt Duss.

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Temporary Protected Status – “TPS” - has allowed immigrants and refugees from half a dozen countries with terrible problems to stay in the US for decades – but now Trump is trying to get rid of all of them.  Sasha Abramsky reports on the human toll of this cruel policy.

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'Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker says “we need courage, not hope” if we are to slow climate change and resist Trump's initiatives.  Her book “The Sixth Extinction” won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Trump’s throwing in the towel on the shutdown after the closure of LaGuardia airport opens a new era of challenge to the president, and also “evened the score” for the air traffic controllers, Harold Meyerson says.  That came almost 40 years after Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers, which began a devastating wave of attacks on unions.  This time they beat a Republican president.  Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect.

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Joan Walsh reports on the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its co-chair Pramila Jayapal—and their plans for a Green New Deal and Medicare for All.  Also: the strange case of the 12 Democrats who joined both the Progressive Caucus and the “centrist” New Democrat Coalition.

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Americans have always struggled over the place of black people in America, starting at the beginning, with the Constitution. Was it a pro-slavery document, as the South Carolinian states-man, John C. Calhoun believed? Or, as Abraham Lincoln argued, did it point toward abolition?  We ask Sean Wilentz -- his new book is “No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding.”

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