Congress Takes a Critical Step Toward Reasserting Its War-Powers Control Congress Takes a Critical Step Toward Reasserting Its War-Powers Control
A Senate resolution to end US support for Saudi-led conflict in Yemen shows that the politics of war are finally evolving.
Dec 4, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
War With Russia? War With Russia?
The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived.
Dec 3, 2018 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
The Notebook: Asylum Seekers Improvise a New Border Bureaucracy The Notebook: Asylum Seekers Improvise a New Border Bureaucracy
In Tijuana, migrants and officials are breaking the law to create some semblance of order.
Nov 30, 2018 / Lolita Brayman and Robert Langellier
Travel Boycotts Won’t Fix Myanmar Travel Boycotts Won’t Fix Myanmar
The country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority is vexing tourists, but not enough to stop the violence.
Nov 29, 2018 / Jessica Loudis
In a Rebuke to Trump, the Senate Just Voted to Open Debate on US Support of Saudi War in Yemen In a Rebuke to Trump, the Senate Just Voted to Open Debate on US Support of Saudi War in Yemen
A resolution sponsored by Bernie Sanders breaks the deadlock, with a 63-37 vote.
Nov 28, 2018 / John Nichols
Yemen’s Human-Rights Defenders Are Fighting Increasingly Desperate Odds Yemen’s Human-Rights Defenders Are Fighting Increasingly Desperate Odds
“This war will never stop until the international community decides to take action.”
Nov 28, 2018 / Sarah Aziza
They’re Refugees, Fleeing Gang Violence and Domestic Abuse. Why Won’t the Trump Administration Let Them In? They’re Refugees, Fleeing Gang Violence and Domestic Abuse. Why Won’t the Trump Administration Let Them In?
How one immigration case has led to a major impact on asylum claims.
Nov 28, 2018 / Laura Gottesdiener and John Washington
Deal or No Deal? The Season Finale of the United Kingdom Deal or No Deal? The Season Finale of the United Kingdom
No one knows for sure how the Brexit episode will end.
Nov 28, 2018 / Gary Younge
Ukraine’s Pinochet Scenario Ukraine’s Pinochet Scenario
Did President Poroshenko use a clash with Russia to try to shut down internal opposition?
Nov 28, 2018 / Nicolai N. Petro
Bernie Sanders Wants the Senate to End ‘Unauthorized and Unconstitutional’ US Aid to the Saudi Assault on Yemen Bernie Sanders Wants the Senate to End ‘Unauthorized and Unconstitutional’ US Aid to the Saudi Assault on Yemen
He has secured critical backing for a vote to block US support for attacks that are worsening a humanitarian crisis.
Nov 27, 2018 / John Nichols