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On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson previews the elections next Tuesday, and Christopher Knight comments on the new art exhibit at MOCA.

After the state's ban on gay marriage was lifted in 2014, advocates took a breath. But more than a decade later, with Obergefell now at risk, there's still more work to be done.

A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.

On The Time of Monsters: Van Jackson on Trump's reckless plunge into conflict in Latin America.

Verdun in the Donbas.

The European Union has failed to mount an alternative to Donald Trump. On defense, geopolitical alignment, and trade policy, it is ever more subservient to the United States.

Kristi Noem visited the Twin Cities and decried out-of-control crime. Is a federal occupation next?

Pulling the strings to undo democracy.

Catherine Connolly, an independent leftist, won a landslide victory with the promise to serve as "a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle."

While half of the proposals on this year's ballot deal with housing, elected officials and organizers in New York City are divided on their effectiveness.