Politics

Medicare for all at Trump Tower

Medicare-for-All Isn’t the Solution for Universal Health Care Medicare-for-All Isn’t the Solution for Universal Health Care

The health-care debate is moving to the left. But if progressives don’t start sweating the details, we’re going to fail yet again.

Aug 2, 2017 / Joshua Holland

Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke Are Purging Climate Scientists for Telling the Truth

Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke Are Purging Climate Scientists for Telling the Truth Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke Are Purging Climate Scientists for Telling the Truth

Dozens of senior officials have been reassigned at the Department of the Interior, including Dr. Virginia Burkett, who contributed to the IPCC reports that won the Nobel Peace Priz...

Aug 2, 2017 / Adam Federman

Health-care protest

Is State-Level Single Payer Within Reach? Is State-Level Single Payer Within Reach?

Scandinavian-style health care is part of at least one candidate’s platform for 2018.

Aug 1, 2017 / Ann Jones

Anti-deportation protest

Hold JPMorgan Chase Accountable for Profiting Off Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants Hold JPMorgan Chase Accountable for Profiting Off Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants

You can also show your support for workers in a Nissan plant in Mississippi and lobby your members of Congress to think beyond resistance.

Aug 1, 2017 / NationAction

Unveiling of 'A Better Deal'

There’s an Even Better Deal the Democrats Could Be Considering There’s an Even Better Deal the Democrats Could Be Considering

Democrats have an opportunity to draw an even sharper contrast with the GOP by embracing the kind of bold populism that this moment demands.

Aug 1, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon

This Is All Very, Very, Very Normal This Is All Very, Very, Very Normal

An oh-so-normal week in Washington, in review.

Aug 1, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow

Redlining Returns To Denver, but With a Neoliberal Twist

Redlining Returns To Denver, but With a Neoliberal Twist Redlining Returns To Denver, but With a Neoliberal Twist

The last great surge in highway-based urban renewal projects displaced residents and divided communities. Now an attempt to correct those mistakes might only compound them.

Jul 31, 2017 / Caroline Tracey

Portland Counter-Trump Rally

When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean? When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean?

For a few weeks in Portland, I got a glimpse of what real solidarity looks like.

Jul 31, 2017 / Donnell Alexander

Seattle income tax

These Cities Are Putting Our Fractious Federal Government to Shame These Cities Are Putting Our Fractious Federal Government to Shame

Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, from Denver to Minneapolis.

Jul 31, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias

John Kelly and Donald Trump

Meet John Kelly, Donald Trump’s New Enabler in Chief Meet John Kelly, Donald Trump’s New Enabler in Chief

Kelly has a record of coddling Trump—and no good will come of that.

Jul 28, 2017 / John Nichols

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