End the Persecution of Julian Assange End the Persecution of Julian Assange
The fifth anniversary of Assange’s imprisonment would be a good day for the Biden administration to end this sordid saga—before it ends the First Amendment.
Apr 11, 2024 / Chip Gibbons
Arizona’s Abortion Ban Is Exactly What Donald Trump Wants Arizona’s Abortion Ban Is Exactly What Donald Trump Wants
If you leave it up to the states, bad things will happen to women. That’s why rising numbers of voters are embracing broad abortion protections.
Apr 10, 2024 / Joan Walsh
Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis? Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?
In honoring a book depicting Ukrainian volunteers in the Waffen SS as heroes and patriots, the group reveals historical ignorance—or indifference to antisemitism.
Apr 10, 2024 / Lev Golinkin
Why I Continue to Write About Guantánamo Why I Continue to Write About Guantánamo
I’ve been covering the detention center since 2002, and I’ll continue to do so until it is eradicated—because I refuse to let this injustice be relegated to the past.
Apr 10, 2024 / Karen J. Greenberg
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Deranged Solution to Gun Violence Is Going to Get People Killed Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Deranged Solution to Gun Violence Is Going to Get People Killed
She’s one of far too many politicians of this moment who think and speak with no regard for truth or reasonable argument.
Apr 8, 2024 / Arnold Isaacs
No, Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend No, Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend
Society / April 5, 2024 No, Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend The former justice is calling on Americans to emulate the civility of Supreme Court justices, ne…
Apr 5, 2024 / Elie Mystal
What It Takes to Break Joe Biden’s Zionist Bubble What It Takes to Break Joe Biden’s Zionist Bubble
The president’s rigid ideological commitment has led him to shut out government dissenters—and his own voters.
Apr 5, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Ghoulish Ostentatiousness of Israel’s Latest War Crimes The Ghoulish Ostentatiousness of Israel’s Latest War Crimes
It’s as if Israel is flaunting its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Apr 4, 2024 / Comment / Jack Mirkinson
A Texas Court Has Decided to Let the Scariest Judge in Texas Keep Being Scary A Texas Court Has Decided to Let the Scariest Judge in Texas Keep Being Scary
The Northern District of Texas has refused to adopt a policy reining in “judge shopping” and, with it, the power of “Mifepristone” Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.
Apr 3, 2024 / Elie Mystal
Will the US Move Toward “Demonstration Elections”? Will the US Move Toward “Demonstration Elections”?
If fascism—or even just an authoritarian regime—does happen here in November, it may look surprisingly familiar.
Apr 3, 2024 / Van Gosse