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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

John Fetterman

The Bernie-Inspired Candidate for Senator From Pennsylvania The Bernie-Inspired Candidate for Senator From Pennsylvania

John Fetterman is running against the establishment—can he win?

Mar 30, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan

The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump

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 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

Bernie Sanders Will Make the Economy Great Again

Bernie Sanders Will Make the Economy Great Again Bernie Sanders Will Make the Economy Great Again

Liberal critics like Paul Krugman argue that Sanders’s economic platform is unrealistic. They are dead wrong.

Mar 29, 2016 / Robert Pollin

The Rest of the World Is Disturbed and Confused by the GOP Race

The Rest of the World Is Disturbed and Confused by the GOP Race The Rest of the World Is Disturbed and Confused by the GOP Race

The soap-opera shenanigans of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are, as John Kerry put it, “an embarrassment to our country.”

Mar 29, 2016 / John Nichols

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

An Alien’s View of the 2016 Election An Alien’s View of the 2016 Election

Electing Trump may mean the end of the world.

Mar 29, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

President Barack Obama.

What Obama Has Gotten Right About the Foreign-Policy Establishment What Obama Has Gotten Right About the Foreign-Policy Establishment

What we need today is a serious and sustained challenge to the “credibility” addiction that has failed our country for so long.

Mar 29, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Donald Trump

Don’t Blame It All on Donald Trump Don’t Blame It All on Donald Trump

To treat Trump’s candidacy as an anomaly is to overlook the system that gave birth to it.

Mar 28, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt

Trump University

Documents Show Just How Suckered Students of the Trump Institute Felt Documents Show Just How Suckered Students of the Trump Institute Felt

Former students of Trump schools vent their rage and disbelief in newly revealed letters of complaint compiled by the Texas attorney general.

Mar 28, 2016 / Spencer Woodman

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