Canada Wants a Realigned Atlanticism
Trump-era volatility is prompting a recalibration of Canada’s foreign policy posture. Despite renewed overtures to Europe, disentangling from US economic dominance isn’t an easy undertaking.
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Medicare Would Be in Real Danger of Collapse Under Dr Oz
By hoodwinking seniors into private Medicare Advantage plans, insurers profit by denying care and bankrupting hospitals. Continuing their crusade against Medicare, Dr Oz and the Trump administration plan to make those plans mandatory.
Big Ag Is Blaming High Egg Prices on Cage-Free Laws
Large egg farmers as well as Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary are blaming egg shortages and high prices in part on state-level regulations that prohibit crates and cages for chickens. The Department of Agriculture’s own data contradicts this story.
Is There a Fourth Way for the Democratic Party?
Third Way Democrats are right to obsess over the Democrats’ increasing troubles with working-class voters. But their solution is more of the Clintonian economic centrism that drove away working-class voters in the first place.
Private Airlines Are Making Billions on Deportations
The new GOP spending bill includes a $485 million budget hike for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That likely means a windfall for the shadowy aviation contractors carrying out ICE’s deportation flights.
Trump’s Cuts Are Unmaking American Greatness
Many of the programs Donald Trump and Elon Musk are slashing are great collective achievements of American society. Those programs show our incredible capacity to achieve a better country and world together.
Israel Is Killing Journalists Again
As Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza in full, so too has it resumed its slaughter of journalists.
We Need More Independent, Working-Class Political Candidates
Bernie Sanders says more pro-worker candidates should run for office as independents rather than as Democrats. He’s right.
The School Privatization Movement Is Broadly Unpopular
For years, the loudest opposition to school privatization has come from public-school advocates and teachers’ unions, who argue that vouchers steal tax dollars from local public schools. They are now increasingly being joined by critics on the Right.
Elon Musk Is Hijacking Rural America’s Internet
Rural Americans need good internet and good jobs. And they were poised to get them — until Elon Musk saw an opening to grow his fortune with a plan that will provide worse internet and fewer jobs.
Our Spring Issue, “Progress,” Is Here
“Progress is not automatic, linear, and irreversible; it is something that has to be fought for.”
The Monkey as Sleeper Horror Hit
It’s been a rough year for movies so far — which makes the new horror hit The Monkey an enjoyable surprise.
The European Union Is Damaged by Its Loudest Supporters
Recent pro-European demonstrations in Italy saw top liberals call for the EU to rearm. For some, it’s a passionate rallying cry — but the diversion of more funds to the military is weakening any prospect of serious European social policy.
Issue 57: Dossier
You could get invited to an eighteenth-century salon at any time. Be prepared.
Waves of the Future
For the electrosensitive community in Green Bank, West Virginia, the perils of progress haunt our present.
Issue 57: Letters + The Internet Speaks
Email was invented for this very purpose —[email protected].
Stopping Donald Trump’s Anti-Union Offensive
Labor will only survive the Trumpification of America through confrontation.
Hope Springs Eternal
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Protocols for a Better Magazine
We binged every episode of Huberman Lab. Things are getting weird.
Pinker’s Progress
The progress Steven Pinker identifies is real, but so is the growing gap between what is and what could be.