Liberal Currents

For more than a year, the "ideas primary" has been simmering beneath the surface of Democratic politics. After Kamala Harris' disastrous defeat, factions throughout the party produced their own diagnoses for what went wrong and how to win next time. But as Trump's poll numbers have cratered—largely as a result of his own demented policies, from ICE brutality to a seemingly in...

What was the first American Reconstruction after the Civil War? Why are some historians suggesting we just left a second sort of Reconstruction era?

Join Caitlin and Trent as they get into it all with historian Thomas Zimmer, going from the first period of Reconstruction, across the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before pressing through this second Reconstruction,...

Graham Platner is at the center of another scandal, this time after reports he sent sexual messages to multiple  women during his relationship with his now-wife Amy Ge...

For most of the twentieth-century, Venezuela was regarded by investors and speculators alike as the most important source of oil

The Opposition Report comes out once a month. Chance Phillips summarizes what has happened in the news since the previous Report. Most news summaries are daily, or weekly at most. But when you are watching these events unfold so rapidly, the big picture can very easily be lost.

What Chance offers in The Opposition Report is an opportu...