Democracy Disenfranchised: Detroit’s Next Mayor Won’t Be Allowed to Govern Democracy Disenfranchised: Detroit’s Next Mayor Won’t Be Allowed to Govern
Michigan’s Republican governor has seized control of Detroit—and there’s a lot more at stake than one city’s balance sheet.
Aug 7, 2013 / John Nichols
A Debt-Free College Education A Debt-Free College Education
Many students leave school far worse than they arrived: saddled with loans, but with no degree to help them land a job and pay off the debt.
Aug 6, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms
Will Bezos’s interest in changing education policy affect his control of the Post?
Aug 6, 2013 / Lee Fang
‘Quit’ Isn’t How Anthony Weiner Rolls ‘Quit’ Isn’t How Anthony Weiner Rolls
Anatomy of a near-believable performance.
Aug 6, 2013 / Leslie Savan
Growing Up in the John Birch Society Growing Up in the John Birch Society
A new memoir exposes the trauma of growing up in an extreme-right-wing family—and the way those traumas were visited, politically, on the rest of us.
Aug 6, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball—which reaped the financial rewards of the steroids era through feigned naïveté—is now content to scapegoat the players for the current...
Aug 6, 2013 / Press Room
Russia’s Stake in Syria’s War Russia’s Stake in Syria’s War
Obama could be arming fighters who want to take their struggle to Russia itself.
Aug 6, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph
August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.
Aug 6, 2013 / Robert Scheer
I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours
The crime of the century.
Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
The NSA Comes Clean The NSA Comes Clean
The agency is either looking at you or looking out for you.
Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow