What Alabama Can Learn From California on Voting Rights What Alabama Can Learn From California on Voting Rights
As Alabama closes DMV locations in black counties, California passes a law to automatically register 6 million new voters.
Oct 12, 2015 / Ari Berman
Jeb Bush Is Completely Wrong About the Voting Rights Act Jeb Bush Is Completely Wrong About the Voting Rights Act
Bush says the VRA is no longer necessary, but his home state of Florida has been a hotbed of voter suppression since 2000.
Oct 8, 2015 / Ari Berman
Hillary on ‘Saturday Night Live’ Hillary on ‘Saturday Night Live’
So Hillary did SNL. And critics believed she did well. But Democrats, midst all the fun, Still wondered how Joe would have done.
Oct 8, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Culture That Capitalism Created The Culture That Capitalism Created
An interview with Boots Riley.
Oct 8, 2015 / Editorial / Laura Flanders
Alan Grayson Takes on Kevin McCarthyism Alan Grayson Takes on Kevin McCarthyism
Did the speaker-in-waiting reveal “a clear and unequivocal misuse of appropriated funds for political purposes” in the targeting of Hillary Clinton?
Oct 8, 2015 / John Nichols
Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult
Forget 2016–Hillary just changed the congressional debate on the trade pact.
Oct 7, 2015 / George Zornick
Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why? Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why?
The mild-mannered reactionary used to be the anti-Trump. Now he’s one-upping him on guns. This won’t end well.
Oct 7, 2015 / Joan Walsh
These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success
Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by a comfortable margin in New Hampshire, and he has almost caught her in nationwide fundraising. How did he do it?
Oct 7, 2015 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
Tell the Democratic Party: We Need More Debates Tell the Democratic Party: We Need More Debates
With only six primary debates scheduled, the DNC is doing the party—and our democracy— a disservice.
Oct 6, 2015 / no-paywall / NationAction
Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue
Clinton just came out with a tough plan to tighten gun laws. Will Sanders stick to his guns—or try a new approach?
Oct 5, 2015 / Joan Walsh