How Canceling Student Loan Debt Would Be Strategically Smart for Biden How Canceling Student Loan Debt Would Be Strategically Smart for Biden
The country desperately needs relief, and the president needs a political win.
Dec 28, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Plague Doctors’ Bacchanal Plague Doctors’ Bacchanal
Another year of the Covid pandemic.
Dec 28, 2021 / OppArt / Andrea Kornbluth
Why Democrats Started Fixating on Inflation Why Democrats Started Fixating on Inflation
Anticipating an impact on their electoral fortunes, Democrats are hoping to get ahead on a pressing question.
Dec 28, 2021 / Column / Aída Chávez
These Progressives Fought the Good Fight in 2021—and Gave Us Hope for 2022 These Progressives Fought the Good Fight in 2021—and Gave Us Hope for 2022
For a year that saw progress come slowly and presidential approval ratings decline, these progressives held the line, speaking truth to power, defending democracy, and showing up f...
Dec 28, 2021 / Feature / John Nichols
The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement
Why is Mark Levin’s American Marxism so popular?
Dec 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
How Workers Can Win in 2022 How Workers Can Win in 2022
They need to create a crisis in order to turn this country around.
Dec 27, 2021 / Feature / Jane McAlevey
That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging
The film “deliberately maligned the upper class,” according to a report that didn’t like the portrayal of Mr. Potter as a bad guy.
Dec 24, 2021 / John Nichols
Founding Godfathers Founding Godfathers
Mobster Sam Giancana once went as far as to tell his brother that the Mafia and the CIA were “two sides of the same coin."
Dec 23, 2021 / Olúfémi O. Táíwò
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet
The US economy depends on consumers consuming and the earth depends on us not consuming. Which are we going to choose?
Dec 23, 2021 / Frida Berrigan
A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame? A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame?
Partly as a result of US policy, Afghanistan’s economy is expected to contract by 30 percent.
Dec 23, 2021 / Brian Osgood