Does It Have to Be Biden? Does It Have to Be Biden?
Joan Walsh on the candidates, Joshua Holland on impeachment, and Peter Richardson on Carey McWilliams.
May 2, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is an Environmental Tragedy Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is an Environmental Tragedy
Ethiopia’s rivers and lakes are now drying up at terrifying speed.
May 1, 2019 / Christelle Gérand
William Barr Is Acting as Trump’s Defense Lawyer, Not Attorney General William Barr Is Acting as Trump’s Defense Lawyer, Not Attorney General
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing confirmed one thing: The United States does not currently, in any practical or realistic sense, have an attorney general.
May 1, 2019 / John Nichols
Mueller’s Own Mysteries Mueller’s Own Mysteries
Little-noted aspects of the first volume of the Mueller report.
May 1, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
Why South Africans Are Talking About Land Expropriation Why South Africans Are Talking About Land Expropriation
A quarter-century after apartheid’s end, cities are overcrowded, and black citizens own a tiny fraction of their country’s farmland.
May 1, 2019 / Jon Allsop
Max Fine Spent His Life Trying to Create a Better Health-Care System Max Fine Spent His Life Trying to Create a Better Health-Care System
Fine, who was the last surviving member of JFK’s Medicare Task Force, always believed that health care is a human right.
Apr 30, 2019 / Carl Ginsburg
The President Is Not the Front-Runner The President Is Not the Front-Runner
In normal election cycles, incumbent presidents are favored to win. But 2020 is no normal election cycle.
Apr 30, 2019 / Steve Phillips
Bernie Sanders Is Hitting Donald Trump Where It Hurts Bernie Sanders Is Hitting Donald Trump Where It Hurts
Bernie is slyly trolling the president in battleground states, calling out GOP lies about saving jobs.
Apr 30, 2019 / John Nichols
Time to Pursue an International Cyber Treaty? Time to Pursue an International Cyber Treaty?
The Mueller report findings show a cyber “wild west” is not in the US national interest.
Apr 30, 2019 / James Carden
The Urgent Necessity of Public-Interest Journalism The Urgent Necessity of Public-Interest Journalism
The winners of this year’s Hillman Prizes remind us how the media can spur desperately needed reforms.
Apr 30, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel