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10 Reasons I’m Praying for AIPAC’s Decline

10 Reasons I’m Praying for AIPAC’s Decline 10 Reasons I’m Praying for AIPAC’s Decline

The right-wing ‘pro-Israel’ lobby is slowly losing its bipartisan appeal. Here's why that's a good thing.

Mar 3, 2015 / Medea Benjamin and Foreign Policy In Focus

What I Learned From Breaking the Law

What I Learned From Breaking the Law What I Learned From Breaking the Law

In 1971, I helped burglarize an FBI office and leaked documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s abuses of power. Here’s what that experience taught me.

Mar 3, 2015 / John Raines

Say It Ain’t So, Jeb

Say It Ain’t So, Jeb Say It Ain’t So, Jeb

Jeb Bush’s "growth agenda" is not actually going to create growth.

Mar 3, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World

Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World

An ice-choked ocean, tens of thousands of whales, no proven technology in case of emergency and a mission for oil: what could possibly go wrong?

Mar 3, 2015 / Subhankar Banerjee

March 3, 1923: The First Issue of ‘Time’ Magazine Is Published

March 3, 1923: The First Issue of ‘Time’ Magazine Is Published March 3, 1923: The First Issue of ‘Time’ Magazine Is Published

Disgruntled former employee Dwight Macdonald took to The Nation to gripe about the mainstream magazine’s crusade against “windy bias.”

Mar 3, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

We Need a Leader With a Superiority Complex

We Need a Leader With a Superiority Complex We Need a Leader With a Superiority Complex

If you don’t think we’re better than the rest of the planet, what are you doing in office?

Mar 3, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

American Jews Face an Ominous New Threat

American Jews Face an Ominous New Threat American Jews Face an Ominous New Threat

We never saw this one coming.

Mar 3, 2015 / Eli Valley

Mr. Spock Was a McGovernite: Remembering Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Live Long and Prosper’ Politics

Mr. Spock Was a McGovernite: Remembering Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Live Long and Prosper’ Politics Mr. Spock Was a McGovernite: Remembering Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Live Long and Prosper’ Politics

Few stars campaigned harder for the anti-war candidate’s 1972 presidential bid.

Mar 2, 2015 / John Nichols

Will the Murder of Boris Nemtsov Raise the Risk of Escalation in Ukraine?

Will the Murder of Boris Nemtsov Raise the Risk of Escalation in Ukraine? Will the Murder of Boris Nemtsov Raise the Risk of Escalation in Ukraine?

The opponents of the recently concluded Minsk agreement could use the murder as a pretext to derail the cease-fire accord.

Mar 2, 2015 / James Carden

Did Slave Labor Produce Your Seafood?

Did Slave Labor Produce Your Seafood? Did Slave Labor Produce Your Seafood?

Without serious reform, migrant fishers in Thailand will remain as disposable as fish bait.

Mar 2, 2015 / Michelle Chen

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