Government

Trump Andrews Air Force Base

Trump Is Pushing the World Closer to Nuclear Peril Trump Is Pushing the World Closer to Nuclear Peril

It is not too late to end this dangerous status quo. Let’s demand a better future, one that is free from nuclear weapons.

Oct 30, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Nuns Bus Tour

The Nuns Are Back on the Bus The Nuns Are Back on the Bus

Why 10 Catholic sisters are on a road trip to spread the gospel of tax reform.

Oct 30, 2018 / Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

This Week’s News… From the Right This Week’s News… From the Right

Dispatches from the party that definitely won’t be contesting any midterm-election results.

Oct 30, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Beto O'Rourke with megaphone

Beto O’Rourke Is For Real Beto O’Rourke Is For Real

Newspapers in Texas’s largest cities just endorsed the Democrat who is taking on Ted Cruz.

Oct 26, 2018 / John Nichols

Chloe Maxmin

What a Rural Maine House Race Can Teach the Left What a Rural Maine House Race Can Teach the Left

Chloe Maxmin could be the first Democrat ever to win Maine House District 88 in a place deep in the state where one thing is clear: The left abandoned rural America.

Oct 26, 2018 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward

Christine Hallquist

Could Vermont Become the First State With Universal Broadband? Could Vermont Become the First State With Universal Broadband?

Gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist wants to bring utility populism to Vermont.

Oct 26, 2018 / Evan Malmgren

Chloe Maxmin

‘If We Won’t, Then Who Will?’: An Interview With Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward ‘If We Won’t, Then Who Will?’: An Interview With Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward

Maxmin, 25, is running for state representative in the most rural county in the most rural state in the country—at a time when young political candidates are having their moment.

Oct 25, 2018 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Congress’s History of Violence

Congress’s History of Violence Congress’s History of Violence

A new history of the antebellum years reminds us that politics on Capitol Hill has never been civil.

Oct 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Delbanco

Elizabeth Warren Woburn Town Hall

Elizabeth Warren Meets the Left’s Circular Firing Squad Elizabeth Warren Meets the Left’s Circular Firing Squad

The release of her DNA test might not have been the best idea, but it shouldn’t be disqualifying.

Oct 25, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt

With Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, How Far Will the State’s Attacks on Women Go?

With Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, How Far Will the State’s Attacks on Women Go? With Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, How Far Will the State’s Attacks on Women Go?

Another reader asks about weathering a public #MeToo event with PTSD.

Oct 25, 2018 / Liza Featherstone

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