In Covering Obama’s ISIS Speech, Can the Media Move Beyond ‘Optics’? In Covering Obama’s ISIS Speech, Can the Media Move Beyond ‘Optics’?
Does it matter what necktie you wear when you declare war?
Sep 10, 2014 / Leslie Savan
‘Europe Is Splintering Over the Ukrainian Crisis’ ‘Europe Is Splintering Over the Ukrainian Crisis’
The conflict in Ukraine has divided the EU into two factions with opposite views on Russia.
Sep 10, 2014 / Stephen F. Cohen
Hundreds of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s New Voting Restrictions Hundreds of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s New Voting Restrictions
More than 450 voters did not have their ballots counted in the state’s May primary as a result of the country’s harshest voting law.
Sep 10, 2014 / Ari Berman
How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy
Andrew Cuomo’s challenger for Governor of New York State didn’t beat him in the primary, but she did prove that no candidate is invincible.
Sep 10, 2014 / Sarah Jaffe
Hope, Voting and Creating the World You Want to Live In Hope, Voting and Creating the World You Want to Live In
Getting to the polls is just the first step.
Sep 10, 2014 / Paul Rogat Loeb
As Obama Prepares His Iraq Talk, Massachusetts Democrats Nominate an Antiwar Vet for Congress As Obama Prepares His Iraq Talk, Massachusetts Democrats Nominate an Antiwar Vet for Congress
Candidate Seth Moulton is in “the long tradition of men and women who served and then used their public positions to speak out against war…”
Sep 10, 2014 / John Nichols
Betrayed by Obama, Latino Activists Debate Boycotting the 2014 Midterms Betrayed by Obama, Latino Activists Debate Boycotting the 2014 Midterms
Authorities will continue to deport as many as 60,000 immigrants between now and the November elections.
Sep 10, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
For Muslim New Yorkers, a Long Path From Surveillance to Civil Rights For Muslim New Yorkers, a Long Path From Surveillance to Civil Rights
For years, Muslim New Yorkers have been spied on, not heard; now they’re finding their political voice.
Sep 9, 2014 / Moustafa Bayoumi
Meet ‘the Elizabeth Warren Wing of the Democratic Party’ Meet ‘the Elizabeth Warren Wing of the Democratic Party’
A new crop of progressive populists is winning primaries across the nation and challenging Clintonian orthodoxy.
Sep 9, 2014 / John Nichols
Despite a Cease-fire, Peace in Eastern Ukraine Remains Out of Reach Despite a Cease-fire, Peace in Eastern Ukraine Remains Out of Reach
The cease-fire appears to be a politically useful fiction.
Sep 9, 2014 / Alec Luhn