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Worried That Voting Machines Could Be Hacked? There’s a Bill to Prevent That.

Worried That Voting Machines Could Be Hacked? There’s a Bill to Prevent That. Worried That Voting Machines Could Be Hacked? There’s a Bill to Prevent That.

The SAFE Act would permanently place our election systems in the same category as other critical infrastructure.

Mar 22, 2017 / John Nichols

Reviving the Peace Movement for the 21st Century: Responses to Daniel May

Reviving the Peace Movement for the 21st Century: Responses to Daniel May Reviving the Peace Movement for the 21st Century: Responses to Daniel May

Peace advocates consider how the movement can be revitalized for the 21st century.

Mar 22, 2017 / William D. Hartung, Diana Ohlbaum, Lawrence Wittner, Meredith Horowski, and Debbie Almontaser

Trumpcare Protest

Saving Obamacare Is Not Enough—We Need Medicare for All Saving Obamacare Is Not Enough—We Need Medicare for All

The terms of the health-care debate must be shifted.

Mar 22, 2017 / Dennis Kucinich

Children walking near Aleppo

The Syrian War Is Creating a Generation of Traumatized Children The Syrian War Is Creating a Generation of Traumatized Children

The cost to the country of disrupted education alone is estimated to be $11 billion.

Mar 22, 2017 / Michelle Chen

This 50 Year-Old Economics Book Helps Explain the Corporate Republic We Live In

This 50 Year-Old Economics Book Helps Explain the Corporate Republic We Live In This 50 Year-Old Economics Book Helps Explain the Corporate Republic We Live In

Revisiting my father’s great work of theory can help us figure out what will take the place of faith in the free market.

Mar 22, 2017 / James K. Galbraith

Elif Batuman’s Bold and Defiantly Imperfect novel

Elif Batuman’s Bold and Defiantly Imperfect novel Elif Batuman’s Bold and Defiantly Imperfect novel

Elif Batuman’s debut novel reminds us that part of the novel’s genius that it made room for the extraneous and the unplanned

Mar 22, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing

Neil Gorsuch Is Not Another Scalia. He’s the Next John Roberts. Neil Gorsuch Is Not Another Scalia. He’s the Next John Roberts.

Gorsuch puts a handsome face on an ugly ideology.

Mar 21, 2017 / Ari Berman

Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court Nomination Protest

Call Your Senators and Demand That They Reject Neil Gorsuch Call Your Senators and Demand That They Reject Neil Gorsuch

Unlike Trump’s other appointments, Democrats can filibuster a Supreme Court nominee.

Mar 21, 2017 / NationAction

US marines outside of Falluja in 2004.

Why Those Spring Breakers Chanted ‘Build That Wall’ Why Those Spring Breakers Chanted ‘Build That Wall’

We shouldn’t be surprised—they’re the children of unending war.

Mar 21, 2017 / Greg Grandin

james comey trump russia

Can Republicans Be Trusted to Oversee the FBI Investigation of Trump’s Russia Ties? Can Republicans Be Trusted to Oversee the FBI Investigation of Trump’s Russia Ties?

They once found the idea of a president under FBI investigation intolerable. But now most of the GOP is silent.

Mar 21, 2017 / Joan Walsh

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