The Brutal Cycle of US Immigration Policy The Brutal Cycle of US Immigration Policy
In Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, Jonathan Blitzer examines how North and Central American migration moves in two directions.
Apr 16, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Gaby Del Valle
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Deranged Solution to Gun Violence Is Going to Get People Killed Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Deranged Solution to Gun Violence Is Going to Get People Killed
She’s one of far too many politicians of this moment who think and speak with no regard for truth or reasonable argument.
Apr 8, 2024 / Arnold Isaacs
Courts Clash Over Texas’s Draconian Immigration Law Courts Clash Over Texas’s Draconian Immigration Law
After a Supreme Court ruling reversed a stay on the controversial SB 4 bill, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals promptly reinstated it.
Mar 20, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
The True Threat of Donald Trump’s “Bloodbath” Speech The True Threat of Donald Trump’s “Bloodbath” Speech
Deplatforming the former president hasn’t worked, so America needs to rediscover his depravity.
Mar 18, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Senator Katie Britt: A Star Is Not Born Senator Katie Britt: A Star Is Not Born
The Alabaman’s disastrous debut was so weird even Scarlett Johansson—who’s played everything from a man-eating alien to Black Widow to Maggie the Cat—couldn’t do it justice.
Mar 11, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Let the Presidential Election Mudslinging Begin! Let the Presidential Election Mudslinging Begin!
Trashing Donald Trump can’t be Joe Biden’s whole reelection message. But it’s a good start.
Mar 8, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Border Hysteria Is a Bipartisan Delusion Border Hysteria Is a Bipartisan Delusion
Yesterday, both President Biden and Donald Trump visited Texas to promise harsher immigration policies.
Mar 1, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
Democrats Are Helping Make the US Border Look More and More Like Gaza Democrats Are Helping Make the US Border Look More and More Like Gaza
The party is embracing the idea of the border as a bulwark against a savage horde. As it happens, that’s exactly how Israel talks about Gaza.
Feb 15, 2024 / Dylan Saba
Tom Suozzi Takes Back the Seat He Never Should Have Given Up Tom Suozzi Takes Back the Seat He Never Should Have Given Up
A bad candidate and a bumbling GOP hand the Democrats another House seat. The biggest loser? House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Feb 14, 2024 / Joan Walsh
All Crumbley Now All Crumbley Now
The soft fascism of false equivalencies.
Feb 9, 2024 / The Greater Quiet / Steve Brodner