Government

Bernie Sanders Medicare

If Democrats Want to Mobilize Young Voters, They Need to Wholly Embrace Medicare for All If Democrats Want to Mobilize Young Voters, They Need to Wholly Embrace Medicare for All

Sixty-nine percent of young Americans support single payer.

Oct 24, 2018 / John Nichols

Voting ballot box

The Most Important Ballot Measures of 2018 The Most Important Ballot Measures of 2018

Amid the din of election activity, don’t forget the power and potential of the ballot initiative.

Oct 24, 2018 / Simon Davis-Cohen

Trump White House USA Hat

Trump’s Midterms Strategy Is Fear, Lies, and (White) Nationalism Trump’s Midterms Strategy Is Fear, Lies, and (White) Nationalism

And that’s what works to turn out his base.

Oct 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh

Council of Economic Advisers

A New Report Shows the White House Is Terrified of Socialism A New Report Shows the White House Is Terrified of Socialism

The Council of Economic Advisers’ investigation into the “opportunity costs of socialism” reads like a nervous undergraduate's term paper.  

Oct 23, 2018 / Kate Aronoff

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Voters Must Catch On to Republicans’ Con on Health Care Voters Must Catch On to Republicans’ Con on Health Care

The GOP’s duck-and-cover effort impedes a debate we need to have on providing universal coverage and increasing Social Security.

Oct 23, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Separation Anxiety

Separation Anxiety Separation Anxiety

Hundreds of children are still separated from their parents after the US government separated nearly 3,000 of them at the border.

Oct 23, 2018 / OppArt / India Tresselt

Trump and Gianforte handshake

President Body Slam Needs to Be Checked and Balanced President Body Slam Needs to Be Checked and Balanced

America needs a Congress that will challenge this president when he attacks freedom of the press, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.

Oct 19, 2018 / John Nichols

Russian White House after shelling

Russia’s Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993 Russia’s Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993

Twenty-five years ago, a nascent democracy died.

Oct 19, 2018 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Maine SNAP EBT

That Trump Administration Claim That Poverty Is Low? Outright Flimflam. That Trump Administration Claim That Poverty Is Low? Outright Flimflam.

It’s based on deeply flawed methodology, resulting from a study whose conclusions are arbitrary. In fact, poverty is seriously understated.

Oct 18, 2018 / Jeff Madrick

Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism

Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism

A new biography captures how the Minnesota senator and vice president was poised to be liberalism’s conscience but instead played a role in its downfall.

Oct 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

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