Betsy DeVos Is Helping Education Profiteers Rip Off Students Betsy DeVos Is Helping Education Profiteers Rip Off Students
Left for dead under Obama, the industry is suddenly getting everything it wants.
Sep 15, 2017 / David Dayen
Hillary Clinton Tries to Explain ‘What Happened’ Hillary Clinton Tries to Explain ‘What Happened’
Her book about the 2016 campaign shows she doesn’t fully understand the problems facing Democrats.
Sep 14, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage
How Corporate Capitalism Looted Democracy How Corporate Capitalism Looted Democracy
Democrats not only colluded with Republicans in the robbery—some may now be willing to allow corporations to evade hundreds of billions they owe in back taxes.
Sep 14, 2017 / William Greider
What a 1970s Chilean Satire Can Tell Us About Donald Trump What a 1970s Chilean Satire Can Tell Us About Donald Trump
How to Read Donald Duck has some surprising insights to reveal in 2017.
Sep 14, 2017 / Ariel Dorfman
Nikki Haley at the UN: Agree With Us or We Go It Alone Nikki Haley at the UN: Agree With Us or We Go It Alone
Haley’s actions and attitudes in the UN begin to seem more and more like efforts to undermine the organization rather than reform it.
Sep 14, 2017 / Barbara Crossette
Hurricane Politics and Climate Change in the Age of Trump Hurricane Politics and Climate Change in the Age of Trump
Mark Hertsgaard and John Nichols on Harvey and Irma; plus Alfred McCoy on cyberwar with China.
Sep 14, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
‘Single Payer Is a Rational Health-Care System’: An Exclusive Interview With Bernie Sanders on His ‘Medicare for All’ Plan ‘Single Payer Is a Rational Health-Care System’: An Exclusive Interview With Bernie Sanders on His ‘Medicare for All’ Plan
The senator from Vermont explains why there is now so much interest in bold reform of America’s health-care system.
Sep 13, 2017 / John Nichols
Will Russia Leave the West? Will Russia Leave the West?
The new Cold War could drive the planet’s largest country, long anchored politically in both geopolitical worlds, eastward to stay.
Sep 13, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left
From disability rights to Black Lives Matter to the environmental movement, bodily autonomy can bring together disparate strands of the American left.
Sep 13, 2017 / David M. Perry
ICE Wants to Destroy Its Records of In-Custody Deaths, Sexual Assault, and Other Detainee Files ICE Wants to Destroy Its Records of In-Custody Deaths, Sexual Assault, and Other Detainee Files
As ICE steps up enforcement operations—and abuses—the agency is simultaneously asking to cover over its own history.
Sep 13, 2017 / John Washington