Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act? Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act?
A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Ari Berman
The Great Regression The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares? Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares?
As the Washington media gleefully covers the skeet shooting photo, real issues like joblessness get left left by the wayside.
Feb 5, 2013 / Press Room
The American Lockdown State The American Lockdown State
Post-legal drones, the bin Laden Tax and other wonder of our American world.
Feb 5, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
Five Ways to Save the GOP Five Ways to Save the GOP
Republican strategists, here's your gameplan.
Feb 5, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow
New Scheme to Rig Electoral College: Divide Dem Votes, Winner-Take-All for GOP New Scheme to Rig Electoral College: Divide Dem Votes, Winner-Take-All for GOP
The latest proposal being floated in Pennsylvania for redistributing electoral votes has the same goal as the last plan: allowing a Republican loser to "win" the presidency.
Feb 5, 2013 / John Nichols
Joe Kennedy, Cold War Critic Joe Kennedy, Cold War Critic
The father of Jack and Bobby and Ted saw the world differently from his sons.
Feb 5, 2013 / Jon Wiener
The Real Problem With Brooklyn College’s BDS Forum Was the Backlash The Real Problem With Brooklyn College’s BDS Forum Was the Backlash
There is something disingenuous about cries that the forum does not represent the spectrum of views on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Feb 4, 2013 / Chris Hayes
Why a Permanent Democratic Majority Is Not a Demographic Inevitability (Part One: Antecedents) Why a Permanent Democratic Majority Is Not a Demographic Inevitability (Part One: Antecedents)
Be very, very careful about the proliferating arguments that demographics show that Republicans are on their way out for good.
Feb 4, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
McCain, Scarborough and What ‘Everyone Knows’ McCain, Scarborough and What ‘Everyone Knows’
Republicans lose it when challenged on their make-believe consensus.
Feb 4, 2013 / Leslie Savan