Carmen Maria Machado’s Genre-Bending Memoir Will Complicate Your Ideas of Queerness Carmen Maria Machado’s Genre-Bending Memoir Will Complicate Your Ideas of Queerness
In the Dream House provides a new blueprint for how to write about queer abuse.
Nov 14, 2019 / Christopher Gonzalez
Why Democrats Need to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit Why Democrats Need to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit
Delivering on big progressive ideas like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal will never happen until Democrats get over their fear of red ink.
Nov 14, 2019 / Marshall Auerback
Impeachment Hearing Republicans Confirm There Is No Defense for Donald Trump Impeachment Hearing Republicans Confirm There Is No Defense for Donald Trump
And they’re continuing to make themselves and their party an American abomination.
Nov 13, 2019 / John Nichols
Take the Country and Run Take the Country and Run
It doesn’t matter what’s on tape or how many whistleblowers come forward if Republicans insist on protecting their own
Nov 13, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
Like Dr. Frankenstein, Republicans Now Face the Monster They Created Like Dr. Frankenstein, Republicans Now Face the Monster They Created
A family quarrel breaks out on the right as neo-Nazis have started heckling Republicans for not being Trumpian enough.
Nov 13, 2019 / Jeet Heer
Governments Abroad Are Shaping Our Foreign Policy in Broad Daylight Governments Abroad Are Shaping Our Foreign Policy in Broad Daylight
Countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been influencing Washington through lobbyists, think tanks, journalists, and academia—and it’s all perfectly legal.
Nov 13, 2019 / Benjamin Freeman and Ryan Summers
Bolivia’s Anti-Indigenous Backlash Is Growing Bolivia’s Anti-Indigenous Backlash Is Growing
The ouster of President Evo Morales has reignited the country’s long-standing racism against its indigenous peoples.
Nov 13, 2019 / Jacquelyn Kovarik
Dividing Landscape Dividing Landscape
The border wall is unethical and inhumane.
Nov 13, 2019 / OppArt / Laurie Smith
The EU’s Shame Is Locked Away in Libya The EU’s Shame Is Locked Away in Libya
Incarcerated refugees wrote on mattresses with tomato paste: “We condemn EU policy on innocent detainee refugees in Libya.”
Nov 13, 2019 / Jérôme Tubiana
How Should We Remember Imelda Marcos? How Should We Remember Imelda Marcos?
A new documentary looks at how the matriarch of the Philippines’ most infamous political dynasty is rewriting her family’s legacy.
Nov 13, 2019 / Rebecca Liu