Andres Magana Ortiz’s Deportation Is Indefensible. Help Reverse It. Andres Magana Ortiz’s Deportation Is Indefensible. Help Reverse It.
Unless their appeal succeeds, the Ortiz family’s future hangs in the balance.
Aug 11, 2017 / Rosy Alvarez and Peter Rothberg
Is Trump Going to War in Korea? Is Trump Going to War in Korea?
His cowboy tirades, and the pundits’ bombastic rhetoric, are exceedingly reckless. History shows that negotiations with Pyongyang can work.
Aug 11, 2017 / Tim Shorrock
Congress Is Pushing Back Against Trump’s Dangerously Ignorant Nuclear Threats Congress Is Pushing Back Against Trump’s Dangerously Ignorant Nuclear Threats
Members of Congress are telling the president he has no authority to launch a preemptive attack anywhere.
Aug 11, 2017 / John Nichols
‘Why So Much Cruelty?’ ‘Why So Much Cruelty?’
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission is unique in the Arab world. But is the country too small a place to tell the truth about human-rights abuses?
Aug 11, 2017 / Ursula Lindsey
Turkey’s Great Terror Turkey’s Great Terror
Recep Erdogan has turned his country into a gulag state, branding millions of citizens as terrorists.
Aug 11, 2017 / Juan Cole
Campus Assault Survivors Deserve Better Than Secretary DeVos Campus Assault Survivors Deserve Better Than Secretary DeVos
Dismissing survivors’ concerns only continues the cycle of abuse on campus, worsening conditions that fuel sexual violence in the first place.
Aug 11, 2017 / StudentNation / Sarah Nesbitt
The Pentagon Has a Small Coup Problem The Pentagon Has a Small Coup Problem
The Department of Defense has trained more than a hundred foreign militaries that went on to stage coups in their home countries.
Aug 11, 2017 / Nick Turse
How Do I Contain My Rage at the Patriarchy? How Do I Contain My Rage at the Patriarchy?
Another reader asks about love in a time of organizing.
Aug 11, 2017 / Liza Featherstone
Why Donald Trump Needs Muslim Women Why Donald Trump Needs Muslim Women
Liberals and conservatives have used the plight of Muslim women to champion wars—now this idea is being redeployed in a cultural war at home.
Aug 11, 2017 / Feature / Rafia Zakaria
Why Trump Is Beating the War Drum—and How It Could Lead to Disaster Why Trump Is Beating the War Drum—and How It Could Lead to Disaster
It’s sure to win favor among hawks of both parties, while distracting the media and public from his domestic woes—but foreign powers are not backing down.
Aug 10, 2017 / Michael T. Klare