Politics

Children playing soccer

What’s the Best Way to Actually Care for Unaccompanied Migrant Children? What’s the Best Way to Actually Care for Unaccompanied Migrant Children?

Not with for-profit contractors. 

Oct 10, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Shows Us How to Fight a Smear Elizabeth Warren Shows Us How to Fight a Smear

But Democrats shouldn’t have to keep refuting garbage stories, especially sexist ones.

Oct 10, 2019 / Joan Walsh

How Abortion Pills Will Shape Our Future

How Abortion Pills Will Shape Our Future How Abortion Pills Will Shape Our Future

The Supreme Court may make it harder to get to an abortion clinic, but thanks to drugs, coat hangers can remain a thing of the past. 

Oct 10, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The New Supreme Court Term Will Be Worse Than the Last One—a Lot Worse

The New Supreme Court Term Will Be Worse Than the Last One—a Lot Worse The New Supreme Court Term Will Be Worse Than the Last One—a Lot Worse

Elie Mystal on the new court, Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, and Jeet Heer on impeachment.

Oct 10, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Edogan and Trump

Trump’s Erratic Syria Policy Deserves No Anti-Imperialist’s Cheers Trump’s Erratic Syria Policy Deserves No Anti-Imperialist’s Cheers

The Middle East mess requires diplomacy, not Trump’s green-lighting of Turkish aggression.

Oct 9, 2019 / Jeet Heer

Bond-Rating Agencies Have the Power to Destroy Radical Dreams

Bond-Rating Agencies Have the Power to Destroy Radical Dreams Bond-Rating Agencies Have the Power to Destroy Radical Dreams

Moody’s threatens Berlin over a progressive housing proposal.

Oct 9, 2019 / Clark Randall

Blue Wave, Meet Brick Wall

Blue Wave, Meet Brick Wall Blue Wave, Meet Brick Wall

Progressives elected them to government. Now it’s time for Nevada’s Democrats to dream and act on their promise for change.

Oct 9, 2019 / Laura Martin

Edward Snowden Deserves to Be Tried by a Jury of His Peers, Just Like Everyone Else

Edward Snowden Deserves to Be Tried by a Jury of His Peers, Just Like Everyone Else Edward Snowden Deserves to Be Tried by a Jury of His Peers, Just Like Everyone Else

The Justice Department has declined Snowden’s request for a jury trial—what are they afraid of?

Oct 9, 2019 / Sonali Chakravarti

Here’s to Nancy

Here’s to Nancy Here’s to Nancy

Hear, hear!

Oct 9, 2019 / OppArt / Mike Luckovich

Trump Shame Shutdown

Centrist Elites Want Trump Impeached for Their Own Political Gain Centrist Elites Want Trump Impeached for Their Own Political Gain

Many of the elites demanding accountability for Ukrainegate were reluctant to do the same for the architects of the Iraq War and the Great Recession.

Oct 8, 2019 / Andrew J. Bacevich

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