Politics

Utah Medicaid

Utah Is Spending Extra on Health Care So More People Can Suffer Utah Is Spending Extra on Health Care So More People Can Suffer

Utah voters approved Medicaid expansion. Why hasn’t it been implemented?

Aug 21, 2019 / David M. Perry

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started

And it could give Democrats a fighting chance in farm country and small-town America.

Aug 20, 2019 / John Nichols

Trump on the Big Screen at CPAC

Trump’s America Is Worse Than Orwell’s ‘1984’ Trump’s America Is Worse Than Orwell’s ‘1984’

As global warming intensifies, our world is becoming bleaker than one of the darkest dystopias ever imagined.

Aug 20, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt

Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias

Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias

And thankfully, bad press matters less and less.

Aug 20, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

How to Solve a Suicide How to Solve a Suicide

Step one: I certainly didn’t do it.

Aug 20, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie

Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie

How far-right operatives manufactured the “crisis” of free speech with books, think tanks—and billions of dollars.

Aug 20, 2019 / P.E. Moskowitz

Stephen Miller cabinet meeting

Stephen Miller Is a Perfectly Mainstream Republican Stephen Miller Is a Perfectly Mainstream Republican

His cruelty is all-American—and it’s shared by millions of others who make up the GOP’s base.

Aug 19, 2019 / Jeet Heer

Bloomington Farmers’ Market

White Supremacy Is Terrorism, Not a Difference of Opinion White Supremacy Is Terrorism, Not a Difference of Opinion

An Indiana city learns that a weak response to white supremacists has predictable consequences.

Aug 19, 2019 / Ed Burmila

The New York Times building

I Don’t Want ‘The New York Times’ to Join the Resistance. I Want It to Tell the Truth. I Don’t Want ‘The New York Times’ to Join the Resistance. I Want It to Tell the Truth.

I’m not trying to drive a boycott. I’m trying to get the paper of record to listen.

Aug 16, 2019 / Joan Walsh

Did Netanyahu Just Kill Washington’s ‘Pro-Israel’ Consensus?

Did Netanyahu Just Kill Washington’s ‘Pro-Israel’ Consensus? Did Netanyahu Just Kill Washington’s ‘Pro-Israel’ Consensus?

The ban against Representatives Tlaib and Omar has angered even those who can’t find their voices when Israel bombs kids in Gaza. 

Aug 16, 2019 / M.J. Rosenberg

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