The Tea Party’s New Hampshire Circus Takes On the GOP Establishment The Tea Party’s New Hampshire Circus Takes On the GOP Establishment
But the Tea Party’s insurgents, already failing in 2014, aren’t likely to get traction in 2016.
Apr 14, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
Will Obama and Kerry Play Their High Cards Against Israeli Hardliners? Will Obama and Kerry Play Their High Cards Against Israeli Hardliners?
Israel's justice minister agrees with Kerry that hardliners are sabotaging the peace talks.
Apr 14, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
The US Military Has Been ‘At War’ in Africa on the Sly For Years The US Military Has Been ‘At War’ in Africa on the Sly For Years
If you want to know what US forces are doing in Africa, it helps to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.
Apr 14, 2014 / Nick Turse
Republicans Used to Support Voting Rights—What Happened? Republicans Used to Support Voting Rights—What Happened?
Democrats are embracing the cause of voting rights. Why aren't Republicans?
Apr 14, 2014 / Ari Berman
Pat Tillman, the Boston Marathon and the Tale of Two Anniversaries Pat Tillman, the Boston Marathon and the Tale of Two Anniversaries
Next week will see two wrenching anniversaries one day apart. One will receive a great deal more coverage than the other.
Apr 14, 2014 / Dave Zirin
The County Seat of Presidio County The County Seat of Presidio County
One thinks of boats this far from water then goes back to just so crushing into sculpture the rear and forward quarter panels of three cars pasteled for half a century by the Big Bend sun, by the windy grit, tarantula spit, and even piercing starlight for that singular space in the mind of art: an abandoned barracks in afternoon’s half-shadow. Even in winter, it’s a long way for the glare to chariot his old welder across the sky. Boyd Elder sweeps the wasps from Prada Marfa a good twenty miles from Marfa proper. Someone else hates that someone by accident swept the Russian schoolhouse everyone loves to hate. A colossal horseshoe crucified with a ridiculous man-sized nail against the sky casts the shadow of a sickle and hammer. Yuccas lean for decades, and the rust on all maybe-likes the sun. After a downpour flees east to Alpine, it’s best to shake your head at the green that nearly tries. It didn’t rain last year, and it won’t rain this year, says the mayor to the hung-over travelers who could be artists, and one of them writes this in a notebook to an angel he saw late last night down the long Judd-red counter of the convenience store, her entire right shoulder’s agave-blue agave tattoo lit by the cash register candy bar light. She bought cigarettes as they locked the doors. Who could know she would come all this way with her soft bangs, her confident nostrils, and that utterly touchable old white sweater? He hopes deeply she might run him over with the land yacht of her prevailing aesthetic.
Apr 12, 2014 / Books & the Arts / John Poch
Joy Behar Beats Chris Christie—and Women Love It Joy Behar Beats Chris Christie—and Women Love It
If the New Jersey governor can’t handle a comedian, how can he run the country?
Apr 12, 2014 / Leslie Savan
The ‘Real Racists’ Have Always Worn Suits The ‘Real Racists’ Have Always Worn Suits
The architects and gatekeepers of American racism have always worn neckties. They have always been a part of the American political system.
Apr 11, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Eritrean Refugees at Risk Eritrean Refugees at Risk
Hundreds of thousands have fled dictatorship—only to face trafficking, exploitation and hostility throughout North Africa and the Sahel.
Apr 11, 2014 / Dan Connell and Foreign Policy In Focus
Bernie Sanders Raises Battle Cry Against Citizens United: ‘I Vote for Democracy!’ Bernie Sanders Raises Battle Cry Against Citizens United: ‘I Vote for Democracy!’
As right-wingers highlight GOP presidential prospects in New Hampshire, the independent senator draws a packed house and standing ovations for the progressive alternative.
Apr 11, 2014 / John Nichols