A Blue Wave Next Month Could Be the Start of a Progressive Sea Change

If Democrats flip the House, the Congressional Progressive Caucus will have the leaders, agenda, and institutional muscle to drive the debate.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Wealth-Defense Industry

Lessons from the Trumps’ tax-avoidance racket.

Chuck Collins

Senators Have a Duty to Reject Kavanaugh’s Threat to Equal Justice Under the Law

Justice John Paul Stevens spoke an essential truth when he said that the furiously partisan nominee has proven himself to be unfit.

John Nichols

Trump’s Immigration Policy ‘Fever Dream’

Child detention, reduced asylum, a pointless wall: What unites these hateful policies?

John Washington

Could the Trump Administration Succeed in Detaining Child Migrants Indefinitely?

In seeking to overturn the Flores Agreement, the administration is undoing two decades of precedent.

Michelle Chen

Kavanaugh’s Testimony

Calvin Trillin

Kavanaugh’s Defenders in Congress Don’t Care About Process

The hearings reveal disparities in who gets to speak out—and who must remain silent.

Patricia J. Williams

More Cold War Extremism and Crises

Overshadowed by the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, US-Russian relations grow ever more perilous.

Stephen F. Cohen

Brett Kavanaugh Is a Liar—So Why Couldn’t Democrats Call Him One?

News reports are not helping by wrongly presenting the hearing as a “he said/she said” affair.

Eric Alterman

Trump’s Reality-TV Trade Deal

He claims the new North American bill is a victory for US manufacturing, but it’s a lot like the TPP and does very little for US workers.

Dean Baker