Ken Burns on Jackie Robinson and the Republican Party’s ‘Pact With the Devil’ Ken Burns on Jackie Robinson and the Republican Party’s ‘Pact With the Devil’
As PBS prepares to air his two-part documentary on Jackie Robinson, we speak to Ken Burns about what the baseball and civil-rights legend tells us about politics in 2016.
Apr 11, 2016 / Dave Zirin
Republicans Need a New Party, Not a New Candidate Republicans Need a New Party, Not a New Candidate
Whether they choose Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, bigotry and immorality have already won the day in the Republican Party.
Apr 8, 2016 / Gary Younge
Why Republicans Cry Political Correctness Why Republicans Cry Political Correctness
Apr 7, 2016 / Column / Laila Lalami
US ‘Information War’ and the Embryonic Kerry–Lavrov Détente US ‘Information War’ and the Embryonic Kerry–Lavrov Détente
Is the recent tsunami of anti-Putin news reports meant to undermine US–Russian negotiations on Syria and Ukraine?
Apr 6, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen
Vox’s Tax Calculator Is Wildly Misleading—So We Made a Better One Vox’s Tax Calculator Is Wildly Misleading—So We Made a Better One
You can’t count taxing without counting spending.
Apr 6, 2016 / Mark Paul, David Rosnick, and Emily Stephens
The Orange Rage Monster Running For President The Orange Rage Monster Running For President
“Trump smash all standards of propriety.”
Apr 5, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
Start Making Sense: What Kind of President Would Donald Trump Be? Start Making Sense: What Kind of President Would Donald Trump Be?
Sasha Abramsky on Trump, Andrew Cockburn on the Election-Industrial Complex, Erin Aubrey Kaplan on Obama, and Noam Chomsky on baseball.
Mar 31, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Women Are Already Punished for Trying to End Their Pregnancies Women Are Already Punished for Trying to End Their Pregnancies
By making legal abortion less and less accessible, anti-choice groups have pushed many women into a legal gray zone.
Mar 30, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump
The Syrian-Russian retaking of a major ISIS stronghold and the West’s further control over the Kiev government refute the orthodox US narrative of the new Cold War, which Trump is ...
Mar 30, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen
Ted Cruz Embodies the Degeneration of Foreign-Policy Conservatism Ted Cruz Embodies the Degeneration of Foreign-Policy Conservatism
Think nothing could be worse than a Trump presidency? Think again.
Mar 30, 2016 / Andrew J. Bacevich