Politics

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

Proud Boy

Proud Boy Proud Boy

Dr. Fauci: “What happened on January 6, senator?”

Dec 6, 2021 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Supreme Stench

Supreme Stench Supreme Stench

Michigan. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of November 29.

Dec 3, 2021 / Steve Brodner

Calling Out Climate Change Denial

Calling Out Climate Change Denial Calling Out Climate Change Denial

Read the writing on the wall.

Dec 3, 2021 / OppArt / Cristián Pietrapiana

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