The Price of Austerity in England

Savage cuts in social services have put county councils in crisis.

Sasha Abramsky

The Toxic Consequences of America’s Plastics Boom

Thanks to fracking, petrochemicals giants are poised to make the plastic pollution crisis much, much worse.

Zoë Carpenter

Shrinking the Military-Industrial Complex by Putting It to Work at Home

It’s not a pipe dream.

Peter-Christian Aigner and Michael Brenes

If the Filibuster Remains, the Progressive Agenda Is Doomed

It takes 60 votes for Democrats to build something, but only 50 for the GOP to tear it down.

Mike Konczal

The Ilhan Omar Affair Was a Victory for Social Movements and Palestinian Rights

The spirited defense of the freshman congresswoman against unfair attack was the result of years of grassroots organizing. But will it really change the entrenched status quo in Washington?

Phyllis Bennis

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City

Documents reveal that the immigration enforcement agency has been keenly attuned to left-leaning protests in the city. 

Jimmy Tobias

The Man With the SS Tattoo

How do we deal with the Nazis living among us?

Laila Lalami

Fox News Has Always Been Propaganda

The cable news channel has poisoned political discourse from the moment it went on the air.

Eric Alterman

Who’s the Dummy?

Calvin Trillin

What Happened to Wisconsin?

The fight over the once-progressive state.

John B. Judis

The Lost Internationalism of Wendell Willkie

David Levering Lewis’s new biography recovers Willkie’s anti-imperialist vision.

Samuel Zipp

Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Novel About Everything

The Spanish writer’s sprawling Nocilla trilogy is a contemporary epic.

Jessica Loudis

The Parachutist

Jose Hernandez Diaz

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