Politics

Republican Presidential Candidates Speak At The Moms For Liberty Summit

Donald Trump Goes Apocalyptic Donald Trump Goes Apocalyptic

Confronted with a long-overdue legal reckoning, the former president's rhetoric has only gotten more extreme.

Jul 11, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

How Rumble Is Planning to Be the Premier MAGA Platform

How Rumble Is Planning to Be the Premier MAGA Platform How Rumble Is Planning to Be the Premier MAGA Platform

The home of Power Slap has become the video platform of choice for powerful MAGA interests.

Jul 11, 2023 / Feature / Jacob Silverman

Black and white photo of pallbearers carrying the coffin of Robert Kennedy

The Other Kennedy Curse The Other Kennedy Curse

Kennedy family mythology is bad history, bad politics—and perhaps as unfair to the living Kennedys as to anyone else.

Jul 11, 2023 / Column / Jeet Heer

US President Joe Biden listens as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez gives remarks to reporters before a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office on May 12, 2023.

Cluster Bombs Are “War-Crime” Weapons Cluster Bombs Are “War-Crime” Weapons

Congress should bar the Biden administration from transferring internationally banned weapons to the Ukrainian government.

Jul 10, 2023 / John Nichols

Still from campaign ad made by an anonymous Ron DeSantis supporter.

Ron DeSantis, American Psycho Ron DeSantis, American Psycho

The Florida governor’s irony-poisoned ad uses far-right memes to sanction homophobic and transphobic violence.

Jul 10, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Jana Elementary School

How WWII-Era Radioactive Waste Fueled a New Crisis at a Missouri Elementary School How WWII-Era Radioactive Waste Fueled a New Crisis at a Missouri Elementary School

Conflicting reports of contamination have worried residents of Florissant, a community that continues to suffer from the legacy of the Manhattan Project.

Jul 10, 2023 / StudentNation / Walter Thomas-Patterson

Former representative Mondaire Jones

Mondaire Jones Is Back—Precisely When Democrats Need Him Mondaire Jones Is Back—Precisely When Democrats Need Him

One of the most progressive members of the 117th Congress is ready to return and fight for an expanded Supreme Court.

Jul 7, 2023 / John Nichols

Two Queens and a Jack

Two Queens and a Jack Two Queens and a Jack

July 4, Philadelphia.

Jul 7, 2023 / Steve Brodner

Biden hands Netanyahu a pen. US and Israeli flags seen in background

In Jenin, as Elsewhere, Netanyahu Knows He Can Count on Washington’s Complicity In Jenin, as Elsewhere, Netanyahu Knows He Can Count on Washington’s Complicity

As America's nonresponse to the attack on Jenin demonstrates, support for Israeli apartheid is fully bipartisan.

Jul 7, 2023 / James Bamford

Patient holding the hand of hospice nurse

The Private Equity Takeover of Hospice Care The Private Equity Takeover of Hospice Care

Half of all Americans now die in hospice care.

Jul 7, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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