World

Rachel Maddow

Obsession With the Russia Connection Is a High-Risk Anti-Trump Strategy Obsession With the Russia Connection Is a High-Risk Anti-Trump Strategy

It lets Democrats off the hook for their own failures—and betting the resistance on finding a smoking gun is a fool’s game.

Apr 6, 2017 / Greg Grandin

Donald Trump Has a Passionate Desire to Bring Back Torture

Donald Trump Has a Passionate Desire to Bring Back Torture Donald Trump Has a Passionate Desire to Bring Back Torture

And that should be no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention.

Apr 6, 2017 / Rebecca Gordon

Marine Le Pen

The Illusions of Disillusion The Illusions of Disillusion

Marine Le Pen is running on resentment, but is it enough to win her the French presidency?

Apr 6, 2017 / Feature / Cécile Alduy

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Yevgeny Yevtushenko

On the Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko On the Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The “poetician, not politician” always seemed conscious of the Russian adage that a great writer is more than a writer—he is a second government.

Apr 5, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The Death of Russia’s Great Poet-Dissenter and the Lack of His Civic Courage in the US Establishment The Death of Russia’s Great Poet-Dissenter and the Lack of His Civic Courage in the US Establishment

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died last week, challenged Soviet authorities for decades while Americans at far less risk remain silent in the face of Cold War hysteria.

Apr 5, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen

yemen airstrike

America’s Support for Saudi Arabia’s War on Yemen Must End America’s Support for Saudi Arabia’s War on Yemen Must End

Acting as a de facto co-belligerent in the conflict, we are lending aid and support to the ideological heirs of those who attacked us on September 11.

Apr 5, 2017 / James Carden

marine-le-pen-supporters

From Collapse to Mystique From Collapse to Mystique

François Hollande failed French Socialists, and France. Emmanuel Macron is promising France a glorious rebirth—but without the “Socialist” label.

Apr 5, 2017 / Feature / Arthur Goldhammer

Susan Rice

Susan Rice Did Her Job—and Boy Are Republicans Pissed Susan Rice Did Her Job—and Boy Are Republicans Pissed

A report that originated in the alt-right sewer leads a GOP senator to slur Rice as “the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration.”

Apr 4, 2017 / Joan Walsh

Anti-war protest at White House

America Is a Nation at War With Itself America Is a Nation at War With Itself

After years on the front lines, war and peace have become inextricable parts of a conflicting American cultural identity.

Apr 4, 2017 / Tom Engelhardt

Mining protests in El Salvador

El Salvador Votes for Water Over Gold El Salvador Votes for Water Over Gold

Against overwhelming odds, an international grassroots campaign has won the world’s first comprehensive ban on metals mining.

Apr 4, 2017 / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

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