A Professional Athlete’s Reply to Trump A Professional Athlete’s Reply to Trump
Your insults to others reveal who you are. We wonder though, Donald, what we should call you. Until a more cutting rebuke comes along, “U Bum” from LeBron will just have to do.
Sep 28, 2017 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber
Sasha Abramsky on Trump and fear, plus Katha Pollitt and D.D. Guttenplan on Hillary’s memoir.
Sep 28, 2017 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
How Fox Keeps Evading the Truth How Fox Keeps Evading the Truth
Even the Daily Mail sometimes admits it’s wrong. Why not Fox News?
Sep 28, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman
Do Liberal Democrats Want War With Russia? Do Liberal Democrats Want War With Russia?
“Russiagate” is abetting the possibility of direct military conflict with Moscow, and liberals, once opponents of such politics, are promoting it.
Sep 27, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
Is Trump Following a ‘Japan First’ Policy Against Kim Jong-un? Is Trump Following a ‘Japan First’ Policy Against Kim Jong-un?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has emerged as a major influence on Trump’s North Korea policy.
Sep 27, 2017 / Tim Shorrock
Puerto Rico Needs Massive Emergency Aid Now—and an End to Austerity Puerto Rico Needs Massive Emergency Aid Now—and an End to Austerity
The island has become a target not only for rapacious vulture funds but also for exponents of Katrina-style “disaster capitalism.”
Sep 27, 2017 / Editorial / Ed Morales
VIDEO: We’re DACA Recipients, but We’re Fighting for All Undocumented Immigrants VIDEO: We’re DACA Recipients, but We’re Fighting for All Undocumented Immigrants
These young activists aren’t going to stop until the rights of all 11 million undocumented immigrants are protected.
Sep 27, 2017 / Video / Armando Aparicio, David Zlutnick, and Leighton Akio Woodhouse
Roy Moore Could Help the Democrats Actually Win Back the Senate Next Year Roy Moore Could Help the Democrats Actually Win Back the Senate Next Year
Republicans just nominated the one candidate who could lose.
Sep 27, 2017 / John Nichols
Is Your Senator Enabling Donald Trump’s Warmongering? Is Your Senator Enabling Donald Trump’s Warmongering?
Rand Paul tried to take away the president’s blank check for endless war, but a number of Democrats joined most Republicans in a Senate vote that let Trump keep it.
Sep 26, 2017 / John Nichols
Fearlessly Speaking Truth to Power Fearlessly Speaking Truth to Power
The examples of Manning and Kaepernick show some of America’s most powerful institutions treating the truth as an inconvenience or, worse, an enemy to defeat.
Sep 26, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel