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No Surprise: Trump Is a Union Buster at His Own Hotel

Amid the buffoonery of Donald Trump’s campaign, workers at his Vegas hotel are demanding justice.

Michelle Chen

Congress

Congress Is Sick of the Secrecy Around the TPP

And Senator Sherrod Brown is blocking a key Obama nominee to show it.

George Zornick
Election 2016

Lincoln Chafee Keeps Ripping ‘Delusional’ Neocons and Democrats Who Compromise With Them

This Democratic contender is skeptical about wars, enthusiastic about diplomacy. And he has a disruptive sense of history.

John Nichols
Politics

The Racist Roots of the GOP’s Favorite New Immigration Plan

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment, but Donald Trump and other candidates are keeping alive the idea that some Americans should not have equal rights at birth.

Zoë Carpenter

From the Magazine

Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later

Why the Lower Ninth Ward Looks Like the Hurricane Just Hit

The neighborhood’s stalled recovery is the self-fulfilling prophecy of political leaders who wrote it off from the start.

Gary Rivlin

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

We are black and alive, still, despite what the pictures say.

Kristina Kay Robinson

From New Orleans to Ferguson, a Decade of Asserting Black Lives Matter

We’ve learned that the moment black people stop saying our lives matter, our lives will cease to matter.

Melissa Harris-Perry and James Perry

Books & the Arts

Acropolis for Sale

Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.

Barry Schwabsky

The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction

The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.

Jesse McCarthy

House of the Dispossessed

Angela Flourney’s The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.

Hannah K. Gold
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Iran Is Not the Greatest Threat to World Peace

There’s a clear way to ensure a nuclear-free Middle East, but Washington is not interested.
Noam Chomsky

Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the assessment of the US Arms Control Association that “the Joint… Continue Reading >

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Tell Congress: Do Not Sabotage Diplomacy With Iran

Members of Congress are threatening to sabotage the historic deal with Iran—a move that risks bringing us closer to war.

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