Abortion Opponents Have a New Tactic—and It Could Actually Kill Women Abortion Opponents Have a New Tactic—and It Could Actually Kill Women
Utah’s governor has signed a bill requiring women obtaining an abortion at 20 weeks or later to be anesthetized.
Mar 29, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Bernie Sanders Will Make the Economy Great Again Bernie Sanders Will Make the Economy Great Again
Liberal critics like Paul Krugman argue that Sanders’s economic platform is unrealistic. They are dead wrong.
Mar 29, 2016 / Robert Pollin
The Decades-Long Conflict in Western Sahara Just Got Worse The Decades-Long Conflict in Western Sahara Just Got Worse
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has aggravated tensions with Morocco—and done little to help the Polisario Front.
Mar 29, 2016 / Anna Theofilopoulou
These Politicians Think Your Kids Need High-Stakes Testing—but Not Theirs These Politicians Think Your Kids Need High-Stakes Testing—but Not Theirs
These politicians send their own kids to progressive schools that eschew rote learning.
Mar 29, 2016 / StudentNation / Nikhil Goyal
Is Tinder Making Economic Inequality Worse? Is Tinder Making Economic Inequality Worse?
In theory, dating apps make it easier to meet people outside our social strata. In practice, we swipe right on people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
Mar 29, 2016 / Eliza Schultz
Why Have Democrats Failed in the State Where They’re Most Likely to Succeed? Why Have Democrats Failed in the State Where They’re Most Likely to Succeed?
Massachusetts should be a model state for liberal public policy, but instead it is one of the country’s most unequal.
Mar 29, 2016 / Thomas Frank
The Rest of the World Is Disturbed and Confused by the GOP Race The Rest of the World Is Disturbed and Confused by the GOP Race
The soap-opera shenanigans of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are, as John Kerry put it, “an embarrassment to our country.”
Mar 29, 2016 / John Nichols
An Alien’s View of the 2016 Election An Alien’s View of the 2016 Election
Electing Trump may mean the end of the world.
Mar 29, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
What Obama Has Gotten Right About the Foreign-Policy Establishment What Obama Has Gotten Right About the Foreign-Policy Establishment
What we need today is a serious and sustained challenge to the “credibility” addiction that has failed our country for so long.
Mar 29, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who Can Change the American University? Who Can Change the American University?
Many professors won’t support their students who are protesting campus racism—even when they want to.
Mar 29, 2016 / Eve Dunbar