Potential Massachusetts Senate candidate is against Elizabeth Warren writing books, generally
Republicans have long had major criticisms of Elizabeth Warren’s policy positions, but it was strange to hear a possible challenger for her Senate seat railing against her for, of all things, writing a… Read more »
What we’re doing now
Wow, okay. Complicated weekend. On the negative side, a fascist has seized control of the White House, is ejecting the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the National Security Council and… Read more »
Inspiring speeches from Women’s Marches across the country
On Saturday, Americans from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, took to the streets in a protest that ended up being larger—by orders of magnitude—than the crowds gathered for… Read more »
Getting to know people who know what we do now: Trevor Timm, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Elizabeth Warren
As you might have heard, in time for Inauguration Day we’re putting out What We Do Now, a collection of short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving… Read more »
Sanders, Warren, Steinem, and Other Leading Progressives Respond to Trump in New Melville House Book Pubbing for Inauguration Day
Melville House has announced it will publish a collection of passionate manifestos by leading progressives—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, and others—and that it… Read more »
“Let me be clear. Should you refuse, I will oppose you, every step of the way, for the next four years.” Thank you, Elizabeth Warren.
One week ago this morning, we awakened to The News. It’s been a grueling, feverish, unwaveringly intense seven days. Yesterday, Senator (and comic book superhero) Elizabeth Warren sat down to compose… Read more »
The most important book trailer of all time
The media in 2016 can be an overwhelming echo chamber. Talking points are drained of meaning after you’ve heard them day after day, for months on end. The atomization of… Read more »
Elizabeth Warren is the heroine of a new comic book
In American politics, comparing your colleagues to the heroes and villains of popular culture is a common as abusing access to private jets. As Donald Trump bullies his way to the… Read more »
“Sooner or later, chickens the size of 747s had to come home to roost”: An interview with Michael M. Thomas
In his novel Fixers, which we published in January, the great Michael M. Thomas answers a question that, for a while, we seemed to have stopped asking: How did Wall… Read more »
Leon Panetta’s memoir kind of goes after Obama, has great title
The publishing industry has many unsung heroes, but some of the most unsung, and the most heroic, are the people that have to come up with titles of political memoirs.… Read more »