Politics

Living With No Future: Iraq, Ten Years Later

Living With No Future: Iraq, Ten Years Later Living With No Future: Iraq, Ten Years Later

Conditions in Iraq, not surprisingly, bear little resemblance to the fantasyland touted by America’s recent presidents.

Mar 26, 2013 / Dahr Jamail

Tips From the Pundit Who’s Always Wrong

Tips From the Pundit Who’s Always Wrong Tips From the Pundit Who’s Always Wrong

As long as you're wrong for the right reasons, your opinion is valuable!

Mar 26, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow

What You Need to Know As Prop 8 Hits the Supreme Court

What You Need to Know As Prop 8 Hits the Supreme Court What You Need to Know As Prop 8 Hits the Supreme Court

Hollingsworth v. Perry is the first gay marriage case ever argued before the Court. What’s it going to take for advocates of equality to win?

Mar 25, 2013 / Nan D. Hunter

Austerity’s Cruelest Cut: Democracy Denied in Detroit

Austerity’s Cruelest Cut: Democracy Denied in Detroit Austerity’s Cruelest Cut: Democracy Denied in Detroit

Detroit voters opposed Michigan Governor Snyder 20-1, rejecting his agenda overwhelmingly. Now he has grabbed control of the city.

Mar 25, 2013 / John Nichols

Why a Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part Three: The Fungibility of Fears)

Why a Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part Three: The Fungibility of Fears) Why a Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part Three: The Fungibility of Fears)

Past predictions of progressive ascendancy have foundered on new mass fears no one could have predicted—or new mass fears conservative political entrepreneurs deliberately wo...

Mar 25, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

Drone Warfare: Neither Cheap, nor Surgical, nor Decisive

Drone Warfare: Neither Cheap, nor Surgical, nor Decisive Drone Warfare: Neither Cheap, nor Surgical, nor Decisive

Since the dawn of air power, supporters have advanced fantasies that, again and again, have failed to pan out—while civilians die in often staggering numbers.

Mar 25, 2013 / William J. Astore

Homeless Vets vs. the VA: An LA Story Continues

Homeless Vets vs. the VA: An LA Story Continues Homeless Vets vs. the VA: An LA Story Continues

The fight in LA to house homeless disabled veterans—on land donated to the government for them—has moved to the courts.

Mar 25, 2013 / Jon Wiener

Congress Has a Constitutional Duty to Preserve and Promote the Post Office

Congress Has a Constitutional Duty to Preserve and Promote the Post Office Congress Has a Constitutional Duty to Preserve and Promote the Post Office

USPS is being hit with a classic austerity model: politicians, influenced by corporations that fund campaigns and overrun Capitol Hill with lobbyists, undermine quality public...

Mar 22, 2013 / John Nichols

Bipartisan Push to Scrap Medical Device Tax Is a Cautionary Tale

Bipartisan Push to Scrap Medical Device Tax Is a Cautionary Tale Bipartisan Push to Scrap Medical Device Tax Is a Cautionary Tale

A bipartisan vote to repeal a good tax shows how tricky it can be to enact real tax reform. 

Mar 22, 2013 / George Zornick

The Cuomo Conundrum

The Cuomo Conundrum The Cuomo Conundrum

Can Andrew Cuomo make New York the “progressive capital of the nation”—by empowering Republicans?

Mar 22, 2013 / Eric Alterman

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