For Joe Manchin, It’s Always About Joe Manchin For Joe Manchin, It’s Always About Joe Manchin
Keep fronting for your Big Pharma, fossil fuel donors, and you’ll go down in history as the senator who destroyed our shaky democracy.
Sep 14, 2021 / Joan Walsh
Germany’s Secret Success: Turning Immigration Into a Nonissue Germany’s Secret Success: Turning Immigration Into a Nonissue
Despite predictions of electoral disaster, Angela Merkel’s decision to admit 1.7 million asylum seekers has become politically popular.
Sep 14, 2021 / Linda Mannheim
How Republicans Turned “School Choice” Into a Losing Issue How Republicans Turned “School Choice” Into a Losing Issue
After 18 months of Covid disruption, support for vouchers and even charter schools has plummeted—even in the home of “Live Free or Die.”
Sep 14, 2021 / Jennifer C. Berkshire
Boycott Texas Boycott Texas
The rest of the country needs to take decisive action to stop the state’s appalling new abortion law.
Sep 14, 2021 / Katha Pollitt
How Making Video Games Became a No-Win Situation How Making Video Games Became a No-Win Situation
Jason Schreier’s Press Reset investigates how labor conditions in a booming industry became so volatile and precarious.
Sep 14, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Lewis Gordon
How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won
Climate activists at other institutions can learn from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard after their victory at the world’s richest university.
Sep 14, 2021 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen
Cutting the $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan Would Be Political Malpractice Cutting the $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan Would Be Political Malpractice
Joe Manchin’s lobbyist-influenced advice threatens to ruin Democratic chances in 2022.
Sep 13, 2021 / John Nichols
First Texas Came for Abortion. Now It’s Going After Voting Rights. First Texas Came for Abortion. Now It’s Going After Voting Rights.
Just a week after Texas’s abortion ban went into effect, Governor Greg Abbot signed a draconian voter suppression bill into law.
Sep 13, 2021 / Elie Mystal
George W. Bush Still Owes the World an Apology George W. Bush Still Owes the World an Apology
In his speech marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Bush made no attempt at taking responsibility for the tragedies that followed that awful day.
Sep 13, 2021 / Joan Walsh