Executive Branch

Speaker Paul Ryan

Don’t Let Big and Dark Money ‘Drown Out the Truth and Drown Out Your Voice’ Don’t Let Big and Dark Money ‘Drown Out the Truth and Drown Out Your Voice’

The cost of elections today increases the power of the privileged few while diminishing that of working Americans and, as such, harms democracy itself.

Apr 3, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Washington Monument and US Capitol silhouetted at dawn in Washington, DC.

Democrats Enlist to Serve, Protect, and Defend the Discredited Foreign-Policy Consensus Democrats Enlist to Serve, Protect, and Defend the Discredited Foreign-Policy Consensus

Meet the new Beltway group that seeks to protect and defend the bipartisan foreign-policy orthodoxy.

Apr 2, 2018 / James Carden

Trump Fox News Hands

Getting a Job at the White House Getting a Job at the White House

No need to have held any high-level posts Or do brilliant thinking that’s out of the box. No need to be held in the highest repute. You only need comment quite often on Fox.

Mar 29, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

Unproven Allegations Against Trump and Putin Are Risking Nuclear War Unproven Allegations Against Trump and Putin Are Risking Nuclear War

“Russiagate” and the Skirpal affair have escalated dangers inherent in the new Cold War beyond those of the preceding one.

Mar 28, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

A protester holds up a sign warning Congress during the March for your Lives protest and march for gun control in the United States, held on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

After the March For Our Lives, It’s Time to Confront Congress After the March For Our Lives, It’s Time to Confront Congress

You can also support a 50-mile walk to end gun violence and call on Congress to oppose Trump's war cabinet.

Mar 27, 2018 / NationAction

Trump Speaks with Reporters

The Media Have a Trump Addiction The Media Have a Trump Addiction

Who’s covering that story?

Mar 27, 2018 / Tom Engelhardt

John Bolton

Trump’s Most Dangerous Betrayal Yet Trump’s Most Dangerous Betrayal Yet

Trump’s presidency has taken a foreboding turn—from madcap farce and unending melodrama toward grim tragedy.

Mar 27, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Trump Opioid Speech

Donald Trump Has Been True to His Word on Human Rights Donald Trump Has Been True to His Word on Human Rights

His friendships with the world’s most notorious autocrats tell us everything we need to know. 

Mar 26, 2018 / John Feffer

Trump touches copy of spending bill

If Trump Doesn’t Get His Wall, No One Gets DACA If Trump Doesn’t Get His Wall, No One Gets DACA

The president dangles hope in front of immigrants, but always snatches it away.

Mar 23, 2018 / Julianne Hing

John Bolton

Apocalypse Soon? John Bolton Is Set to Replace H.R. McMaster as National-Security Adviser Apocalypse Soon? John Bolton Is Set to Replace H.R. McMaster as National-Security Adviser

Even a cursory look at some of Bolton’s pronouncements on a number of high-profile foreign-policy challenges should be cause for grave concern.

Mar 23, 2018 / James Carden

x