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A crowd of demonstrators wearing masks and waving flags.

A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile

Do the problems that beset us, so similar to those that plague our Chilean brothers and sisters, not cry out for a radical reimagining of who we are?

Oct 26, 2020 / Ariel Dorfman

Military Flyovers at NFL Games Are Ridiculous

Military Flyovers at NFL Games Are Ridiculous Military Flyovers at NFL Games Are Ridiculous

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck would be right to call them out for what they are: outrageously wasteful publicity stunts.

Oct 21, 2020 / Dave Zirin

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as of the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.

Oct 21, 2020 / Mark Weisbrot

The defendants in the Chicago trial all sit around microphones with reporters crowded around them.

Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7

The centrist filmmaker captures the drama of the 1960s, but tries too hard to make radicals palatable to contemporary liberals.

Oct 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Reimagining American Foreign Policy

Reimagining American Foreign Policy Reimagining American Foreign Policy

A new book examines the narrative framework around internationalism that foreign-policy elites coined in the 1940s, and which has shaped the world we live in.

Oct 20, 2020 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Your Dog in the Race?

Your Dog in the Race? Your Dog in the Race?

Trump politicizes health care, with devastating consequences.

Oct 19, 2020 / OppArt / Sue Coe

Sinking Presidency

Sinking Presidency Sinking Presidency

The candidate’s yard sign?

Oct 17, 2020 / OppArt / Leonard Stokes

Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law

Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law

He not only applauded the California GOP’s illegal use of mail-in ballot drop-boxes; he’s urging Republican officials elsewhere to do the same thing.

Oct 16, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President

Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President

His paranoid fantasies are for the masses, but they are propped up by plenty of elites.

Oct 16, 2020 / Steve Fraser

A Woman’s Life

A Woman’s Life A Woman’s Life

Some 60,000 nursing home residents have died of the virus. How did they live?

Oct 14, 2020 / JoAnn Wypijewski

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