Executive Branch

A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement

A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement

Now the 18,000 Arkansans who lost health-care coverage are eligible to get it back.

Mar 28, 2019 / Bryce Covert

Rachel Maddow

The Real Costs of Russiagate The Real Costs of Russiagate

Its perpetrators, not Putin or Trump, “attacked American democracy.”

Mar 27, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Robert Mueller sworn in

RIP, Russiagate RIP, Russiagate

The implosion of the collusion theory is a humiliation for everyone who promoted it.

Mar 26, 2019 / Aaron Maté

Iraq US Coalition Airstrike

It Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War It Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War

We need space for real dissent from the views of a foreign policy establishment that has so clearly failed us.

Mar 26, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

the white house

The President Has Not Been Exonerated The President Has Not Been Exonerated

In addition to demanding the release of the Mueller report, Congress must examine actions by William Barr that call into question the AG's objectivity.

Mar 25, 2019 / John Nichols

Mueller Capitol

No, the Media Didn’t Over-Hype ‘Russiagate’ No, the Media Didn’t Over-Hype ‘Russiagate’

No human being on Earth has done more to keep the Trump-Russia narrative in the news than Donald Trump.

Mar 25, 2019 / Joshua Holland

Women protest global gag rule

Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Making It Harder to Fight the AIDS Crisis Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Making It Harder to Fight the AIDS Crisis

The Trump administration says it is leading the global fight against HIV and AIDS—and then shoots itself in the foot.

Mar 25, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Robert Mueller

Release the Mueller Report—Immediately and Completely Release the Mueller Report—Immediately and Completely

If we want the truth, we must have transparency.

Mar 22, 2019 / John Nichols

Mike Pompeo

Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court? Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court?

Mike Pompeo’s diplomatic sanctions against war-crimes investigators are consistent with Trump’s “America first” worldview.

Mar 21, 2019 / Nicholas Mulder

Russian Jets and Flags

The Cold War Ides of March The Cold War Ides of March

US Cold Warriors escalate toward actual war with Russia.

Mar 20, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

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