Amid ‘Russiagate’ Hysteria, What Are the Facts? Amid ‘Russiagate’ Hysteria, What Are the Facts?
We must end this Russophobic insanity.
Jun 1, 2018 / Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Puerto Rico Matters More Puerto Rico Matters More
Estimates that more than 4,600 people died after Hurricane Maria demand attention.
May 31, 2018 / John Nichols
Debasing US Policy Discourse About Russia Debasing US Policy Discourse About Russia
Is Putin really a “pariah” and Russia “isolated from the international community”?
May 30, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen
Democrats Are Missing the Opportunity to Offer an Alternative to Endless War Democrats Are Missing the Opportunity to Offer an Alternative to Endless War
The Democrats’ failure to advance a bold progressive alternative to President Trump’s belligerent policies and bloated defense budgets is a huge missed opportunity.
May 29, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Breaking a Promise, Tom Perez Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Andrew Cuomo Breaking a Promise, Tom Perez Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Andrew Cuomo
By abandoning a commitment to strict neutrality and endorsing in a key race, the DNC chair undermines confidence in the Democratic Party.
May 25, 2018 / John Nichols
What if School Lunch Programs Promoted Public Health, Good Jobs, and the Environment? What if School Lunch Programs Promoted Public Health, Good Jobs, and the Environment?
From LA to Cook County, local governments are using their purchasing power to transform the food system.
May 25, 2018 / Anna Lappé and Jose Oliva
Congress Must Overrule the Supreme Court’s Dramatic Assault on Worker Rights Congress Must Overrule the Supreme Court’s Dramatic Assault on Worker Rights
A ruling in favor of mandatory-arbitration agreements undermines efforts to address wage theft and raises new concerns about discrimination.
May 24, 2018 / John Nichols
Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries
John Nichols on moving the Democrats left, Yanis Varoufakis on Trump and Europe, and Arthur Goldhammer on Paris in May ’68.
May 24, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Intel ‘Informants’ and ‘Suspicious Contacts’ Echo Dark Pasts Intel ‘Informants’ and ‘Suspicious Contacts’ Echo Dark Pasts
McCarthyism and firsthand recollections of Soviet surveillance practices.
May 23, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen
What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas
Progressive insurgents lost to establishment picks in Texas’s runoffs. What does this tell us?
May 23, 2018 / D.D. Guttenplan