The Nisman Affair
Seizing on the death of a government official, the Right seems determined to create another crisis in Argentina.
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Ending the Barbarity
Activists scored a win last week against for-profit prisons. Can they use it to launch a broader attack on the carceral state?
No Go
Nancy Pelosi wants new anti-deficit rules in the House. Her goal: averting the threat of progressive legislation.
How to Change Everything
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
RINOs (Resisters In Name Only)
Republican grandstanding against Trump while backing nearly all of his policies isn’t resistance — it’s just a cynical PR move.
Justin Trudeau Is Not Your Friend
Everybody loves Justin Trudeau. But his policies are bad for workers, the environment, and struggling people everywhere.
The Persistence of Pax Americana
Donald Trump came to Washington vowing to take on the foreign policy establishment. But Beltway elites have mostly gotten their way.
Abortion Under Siege
The Right’s virulent anti-abortion rhetoric created the environment that led to the Planned Parenthood attack.
The Deficit Hawks
The mainstream media never misses a chance to fearmonger about social welfare spending. Tonight's debate will be no exception.
Unity Is a One-Way Street
By purging Sanders backers from top positions, the DNC has shown what it means when it talks about "unity" and "compromise."
Politics Is the Solution
We can’t move to Canada or hide under the bed. This is a moment to embrace democratic politics, not repudiate them.
Here Come the Kennedys
Chris Kennedy has thrown his hat — and his family's enormous wealth — into the Illinois governor's race. But does he really represent a progressive option?
Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Contemporary liberals are temperamentally conservative — and what they want to conserve is a morally bankrupt political order.
Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, but find themselves cringing when Israeli politicians make racist remarks, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
Joe Biden’s Vanishing Act Isn’t Making It Any Easier to Beat Trump
With the election campaign in its final stretch, Joe Biden has taken nearly a third of September off from campaigning. It’s an enormous strategic blunder that anyone hoping for Donald Trump’s defeat should be very worried about.
When Politics Becomes Professional
All successful movements need leaders, elected officials, and, yes, even bureaucrats. The key is to remember the radical roots of those bureaucracies and leaderships — so they can sustain instead of squelch socialist politics.
Trump Beats Biden
The Democratic Party establishment has united behind the candidate who has failed at running for president for 32 years. Defender of banks and drug companies, Joe Biden is the swamp creature of Donald Trump’s dreams.
Bernie Sanders Lost, But He Advanced the Class Struggle
Critics declaring Bernie Sanders’s campaigns a total failure have discounted a basic socialist proposition: our metric for his success should not just be his winning or losing, but the extent to which the working-class movement has advanced.