How Defunding Derails Our Infrastructure

John Boehner claims public financing had nothing to do with the Amtrak disaster, but like so many others, it can be directly traced to funding shortfalls.

John Nichols

Why We Need to Take Sy Hersh’s bin Laden Bombshell Seriously

The dean of American investigative journalism knows a thing or two about how to vet sources and separate fact from fiction.

Bob Dreyfuss

The Proof That Centrism is Dead

Every story that centrists told about the recession turned out to be wrong.

Mike Konczal

An Unsettling Sentence

On Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the federal death penalty.

Bruce Shapiro

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

Snapshot: Love in a Time of Gentrification

A newlywed couple poses for photographs at San Francisco’s City Hall on May 8 amid hundreds of anti-eviction protesters. The demonstrators, holding signs that read stop evictions and no artists, no culture, were calling for an end to the displacement of low-income residents from the Mission District by high-paid tech workers. Read More

Eric Risberg

Birth Control That Works Too Well

A Colorado program to give low-income teens long-acting contraception dropped the teen abortion rate dramatically. But conservatives refuse to fund it.

Katha Pollitt

Solving Jeb Bush’s Last Name Problem

Calvin Trillin

Letters

The 9-to-5 dream; the root of all good and evil; praise for a poet of fact…

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