Politics

Senator Ron Johnson

The 43 Senators of the Republican Sedition Caucus Are Every Bit As Guilty as Donald Trump The 43 Senators of the Republican Sedition Caucus Are Every Bit As Guilty as Donald Trump

Voters must be reminded in 2022 that senators like Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson chose partisanship over their constitutional duty.

Feb 16, 2021 / John Nichols

President Joe Biden

The Head of Every Table: Joe Biden’s Impossible Foreign Policy Aspirations The Head of Every Table: Joe Biden’s Impossible Foreign Policy Aspirations

If the president and his team don’t rethink the United States’ presence across the world, our real security will be the first casualty.

Feb 16, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

How a Climate-Justice Champion Won Office in Rural, Working-Class Maine

How a Climate-Justice Champion Won Office in Rural, Working-Class Maine How a Climate-Justice Champion Won Office in Rural, Working-Class Maine

State Senator Chloe Maxmin, a progressive activist who unseated the GOP minority leader in November, talks about social-movement organizing.

Feb 16, 2021 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Excuses for Acquittal: The Sequel Excuses for Acquittal: The Sequel

The most exonerated president in history.

Feb 16, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow

Impeachment Was Only the Beginning

Impeachment Was Only the Beginning Impeachment Was Only the Beginning

Trump’s two impeachments are just the start of a long struggle to turn the former president into a pariah.

Feb 15, 2021 / Jeet Heer for The Nation

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Feb 15, 2021 / OppArt / Steve Breen

Karen Lewis

Karen Lewis Built a Proudly Militant Movement for Public Education Karen Lewis Built a Proudly Militant Movement for Public Education

“Great schools with great teachers is the most important civil right of our generation,” she boldly declared. And she built a movement of believers in that vision.

Feb 15, 2021 / John Nichols

National Guard

Is America’s Soul Beyond Redemption? Is America’s Soul Beyond Redemption?

It’s been over 50 years since MLK called attention to the “giant triplets” of racism, militarism, and materialism in the US. In 2021, not much has changed.

Feb 15, 2021 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Mapping the Trump Meridian in Texas

Mapping the Trump Meridian in Texas Mapping the Trump Meridian in Texas

Just five years after calling Mexican immigrants drug dealers, criminals, and rapists, Trump collected over 30 percent of the vote in every Texas county along the border.

Feb 15, 2021 / Feature / Jaime Garcia and Rick Treviño

President Donald Trump

Hey, Prosecutors, It’s Your Turn to Try to Hold the Mobster Ex-President Accountable Hey, Prosecutors, It’s Your Turn to Try to Hold the Mobster Ex-President Accountable

In fact, it would be a clear demonstration of favoritism if former president Trump were not investigated by the justice system.

Feb 14, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

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