Standing Rock and the Struggle Ahead

The indigenous movement is integral to the future of the planet and a winning left.

We Need to Throw More Criminal Businesspeople in Jail

White-collar crime is barely prosecuted in the United States. It’s time for that to change.

Rolling Back Birthright Citizenship, Rolling Back Democracy

The Right’s recent attacks on birthright citizenship are a further step in their slide toward “postfascism.”

The Last Thing This Country Needed

Yesterday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don’t discriminate by party or ideology.

A Decent Health Care System Was the Big Loser in Last Night’s Debate

Americans want a universal public health plan, but the idea has no champion in this presidential election. Instead, we have Donald Trump’s scorched-earth campaign against the ACA, and Joe Biden moving further and further away from even a universally available public option.

The Art of Spin

How Hillary Clinton backers deployed faux feminism and privilege politics to divert attention from her destructive policies.

The State of the Union Is Sick

Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union was, unsurprisingly, depraved. But the speech showcased the kind of bloodthirsty rhetoric we can expect from his reelection campaign in the fall — rhetoric that a weak-tea centrist liberal candidate won't be able to defeat.

Bedtime for Bannon

Steve Bannon was supposed to mobilize Trump's adoring masses, and so far he's failed.

Trump’s Postal Service Chairman Has Led Senate GOP’s $100 Million Super PAC

Trump just installed a former Republican National Committee chair to lead the board that oversees the USPS. Now the agency faces allegations that it is being used to rig the 2020 election.

Megyn Kelly Is Still Terrible

Megyn Kelly's handful of admirable stances at Fox don't make up for years of peddling reactionary, racist nonsense.

We Must Learn to Embrace Populism

Thomas Frank’s brilliant new book The People, No focuses on the long elite tradition of anti-populism. But it is really an urgent plea to liberals and radicals alike to embrace a left populism and universalism — or keep on losing.

At Tonight’s Debate, They’re Coming for Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders is emerging as the Democratic front-runner — which is why the knives will be out for him at tonight’s debate. To win, Sanders needs to do what he does best: pivot the conversation back to the issues that matter, like an economy that works for the many instead of the few, opposing war, and defeating Donald Trump.

Liberals Still Think Fact-Checking Will Stop the Right. They’re Wrong.

For today’s liberals, the default approach to combating the Right is to fact-check the Right. But conservatives aren’t contestants in a debating contest: they’re waging a political struggle and playing to win. Fact-checking won’t save us.

Beautiful Coal and Disastrous Droughts

Last night, Trump laid out a racist, xenophobic vision for what a warmed world could look like.

The Long, Disastrous Career of Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley’s political career has been great for corporate executives and campaign donors. For everyone else, particularly workers and the poor, it’s been terrible.

Trump Supporters on the Right Are Preparing for a Post-Democratic Future

The Right has always used a mix of legislation, violence, and the courts to keep the wrong people from voting. Now it seems prepared to go a step further: legislating and organizing on the assumption that elections the GOP loses are inherently illegitimate.

Biden and the Dems Should Have Buried Trumpism. But They Provided No Alternative.

In last week’s election, the Democrats performed terribly, despite running during a period of unprecedented crisis against a uniquely unpopular president. Donald Trump’s four years of demagoguery and corporate giveaways should have been easy to run against — but the Democratic Party is unwilling and unable to pose an alternative.

QAnon Hasn’t Disappeared. It’s in America’s Bloodstream.

The QAnon conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was fighting a satanic pedophile cabal may have faded from national discourse, but its ideology, networks, and practices have become integrated into American politics.

Doom and Gloom Democrats

The Bullies’ Club

Just like Trump, UFC president Dana White built his fortune off exploitation and union-busting. No wonder they're friends.