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Yesterday 2:37 pm
She Ran on a Platform of “Radical Love.” Now She’s Facing Radical Hate.
Harlem’s new city councilwoman is finally getting media attention—and death threats—for sending condolences to the family of a man accused of murdering two cops.
Joan Walsh
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Yesterday 5:00 am
We Don’t Need a Department of Homeland Security
Since 9/11, we’ve overfunded a second Pentagon capable of focusing on whatever it considers to be most politically expedient.
Andrea Mazzarino
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January 27, 2022
The Many Remarkable Black Women Who Could Replace Stephen Breyer
Biden has a wealth of choices when it comes to fulfilling his campaign promise to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Elie Mystal
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January 27, 2022
Are We Any Closer to Shutting Down Guantánamo?
In the legal quagmire the US has created, there is no easy answer.
Karen J. Greenberg
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January 27, 2022
Chevron’s Prosecution of Steven Donziger
Documents reveal a close collaboration between the oil giant, its law firm, and the “private prosecutor” who sent the environmentalist lawyer to federal prison.
James North
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January 26, 2022
The Supreme Court vs. the Earth
The conservatives on the Supreme Court are increasingly inserting themselves into the climate fight—and you guess which side they’re on.
Elie Mystal
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January 25, 2022
ICE Is Detaining More Immigrants. Covid Is Putting Them in Danger.
The Biden administration is placing millions of incarcerated people—including over 20,000 who are in ICE detention—at risk of a Covid-19 illness, disability, and death.
Sophia Gurulé and Abdullah Shihipar
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January 24, 2022
The Making of a Coronavirus-Criminal Presidency
If you want to know how the US ended up in a pandemic with a swindler president who could not be bothered to take basic steps to save lives, don’t start with Trump.
John Nichols
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January 24, 2022
John Roberts Gets an F on His Annual Report
The chief justice’s year-end appraisal of the federal judiciary reads as innocuous at first glance—it’s anything but.
Elie Mystal
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January 21, 2022
We Wouldn’t Be in This Mess if D.C. Were a State
The problem in the Senate runs deeper than Sinema and Manchin. It’s an unrepresentative chamber that must be made more representative.
John Nichols