Donald Trump’s Plans to Help Women Are Ridiculously Regressive Donald Trump’s Plans to Help Women Are Ridiculously Regressive
Funding for “maternity leave,” plus a child-care tax credit that favors the rich, are programs targeted at the well-off white women who are abandoning the GOP.
Sep 14, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Ohio Keeps Making It Harder to Vote Ohio Keeps Making It Harder to Vote
Black voters were five times more likely than whites to cast a ballot during the early voting days eliminated by Ohio Republicans.
Sep 13, 2016 / Ari Berman
America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born
The United States was an explicitly racist project intended to populate the land with white people—maybe that’s what Donald means by “Make America Great Again”?
Sep 13, 2016 / Aviva Chomsky
What’s the Number 1 Threat to Security? No One Is Asking Trump or Clinton What’s the Number 1 Threat to Security? No One Is Asking Trump or Clinton
Missing from an election season dominated by spectacle and confrontation is the serious debate we desperately need to have about nuclear weapons.
Sep 13, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Lessons From Donald Trump’s Biggest Hero Lessons From Donald Trump’s Biggest Hero
Step 1: Become president of your country without ever having held elective office.
Sep 13, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
A Lot of Trump Supporters Are Deplorable—and a Lot of the Media Are Too A Lot of Trump Supporters Are Deplorable—and a Lot of the Media Are Too
The frenzy over Clinton’s warning about bigoted Trump backers, along with her minor health scare Sunday, is just more media malpractice.
Sep 12, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign
Spoiler alert: They’re mostly about Donald Trump.
Sep 9, 2016 / Video / Khalid Rahmaan
There Is an Arrest Warrant Out for Jill Stein There Is an Arrest Warrant Out for Jill Stein
Why? Because she protested with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Sep 9, 2016 / John Nichols
NBC’s Farcical Commander-in-Chief Forum NBC’s Farcical Commander-in-Chief Forum
This was a big missed opportunity for the network—and for voters.
Sep 8, 2016 / James Carden