Politics

Joe Biden

Biden Shouldn’t Use the Summit for Democracy to Start More Cold Wars Biden Shouldn’t Use the Summit for Democracy to Start More Cold Wars

Growing tensions with Russia and China only reinforce the nationalist and militarist factions in all countries.

Dec 8, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Crumbling Constitution

Crumbling Constitution Crumbling Constitution

We the people.

Dec 8, 2021 / OppArt / Kirk Maynard

What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift

What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift

Fandom has taken on the worst of the corrupted tribalism that has dominated so much of life outside the arena, the ballpark, and the stadium.

Dec 8, 2021 / Robert Lipsyte

Today’s GOP Would Excommunicate Bob Dole

Today’s GOP Would Excommunicate Bob Dole Today’s GOP Would Excommunicate Bob Dole

Dole felt his party had a duty to support voting rights. But his colleagues in Congress today would rather punish those in the GOP who choose to defend democracy.

Dec 8, 2021 / John Nichols

Protest, with someone holding a sign reading NO MANDATE OUR BODIES OUR CHOICE

The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants to catch us in a trap where either we concede the state’s right to coerce reproduction or we abandon the state’s right to mandate vaccines.

Dec 8, 2021 / David M. Perry

What We Get Wrong About Adoption

What We Get Wrong About Adoption What We Get Wrong About Adoption

Activists and political leaders promote adoption as a social good, looking past the complex experiences of adoptees and the parents who relinquish them.

Dec 7, 2021 / Gretchen Sisson and Jessica M. Harrison

New Corona Variants = More Deaths

New Corona Variants = More Deaths New Corona Variants = More Deaths

Protest against mandates = more variants.

Dec 7, 2021 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Trump Fasching float

The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking

And it hasn’t had this kind of opportunity for global expansion since fascism’s heyday in the 1930s.

Dec 7, 2021 / John Feffer

Jessica Cisneros

Jessica Cisneros Is the Future of the Democratic Party Jessica Cisneros Is the Future of the Democratic Party

A conversation with the 28-year-old human rights attorney, who will be facing one of the last anti-abortion, pro-gun Democrats left in Congress.

Dec 7, 2021 / Aída Chávez

Xiomara Castro

Honduras Elects a Socialist—but Will She Be Allowed to Govern? Honduras Elects a Socialist—but Will She Be Allowed to Govern?

Xiomara Castro’s administration won’t have it easy: Corrupt networks permeate every branch of government.

Dec 6, 2021 / Jared Olson

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