Politics

Wisconsin Needs to Extend Hours for Early Voting and Obtaining Voter IDs

Wisconsin Needs to Extend Hours for Early Voting and Obtaining Voter IDs Wisconsin Needs to Extend Hours for Early Voting and Obtaining Voter IDs

New restrictions, long lines, and a server breakdown are making it harder to vote in critical primaries.

Apr 1, 2016 / John Nichols

Big Oil protesters

Louisiana Is Starting to Rise Up Against Big Oil Louisiana Is Starting to Rise Up Against Big Oil

The Obama administration held its biggest oil lease sale yet—and then the protesters showed up.

Apr 1, 2016 / David Helvarg

Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Could Block 300,000 Registered Voters From the Polls

Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Could Block 300,000 Registered Voters From the Polls Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Could Block 300,000 Registered Voters From the Polls

One of the country’s toughest voting restrictions takes effect for the April 5 primary.

Apr 1, 2016 / Ari Berman

Flint Water Plant tower

Private Infrastructure Contracting May Be a Quick Way to Round Up Capital, but Does It Create Lasting Jobs? Private Infrastructure Contracting May Be a Quick Way to Round Up Capital, but Does It Create Lasting Jobs?

To avoid “disaster capitalism,” community organizations need to be deeply involved.

Apr 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Kasich

Half of the Abortion Clinics in Ohio Have Closed. And Kasich Is a ‘Moderate’? Half of the Abortion Clinics in Ohio Have Closed. And Kasich Is a ‘Moderate’?

Since when does moderate mean “one who does everything in his power to destroy women’s reproductive rights”?

Mar 31, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed

Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed

Nothing sums up the high-drama, low-substance nature of 2016 race coverage more than the underplaying of a serious speech about the Supreme Court.

Mar 31, 2016 / John Nichols

Start Making Sense: What Kind of President Would Donald Trump Be?

Start Making Sense: What Kind of President Would Donald Trump Be? Start Making Sense: What Kind of President Would Donald Trump Be?

Sasha Abramsky on Trump, Andrew Cockburn on the Election-Industrial Complex, Erin Aubrey Kaplan on Obama, and Noam Chomsky on baseball.

Mar 31, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Donald Trump Speaking

Women Are Already Punished for Trying to End Their Pregnancies Women Are Already Punished for Trying to End Their Pregnancies

By making legal abortion less and less accessible, anti-choice groups have pushed many women into a legal gray zone.

Mar 30, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

John Fetterman

The Bernie-Inspired Candidate for Senator From Pennsylvania The Bernie-Inspired Candidate for Senator From Pennsylvania

John Fetterman is running against the establishment—can he win?

Mar 30, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan

The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump

The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump

The Syrian-Russian retaking of a major ISIS stronghold and the West’s further control over the Kiev government refute the orthodox US narrative of the new Cold War, which Trump is ...

Mar 30, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen

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