Republicans

Scott Walker and Rebecca Bradley

Sanders and Clinton Agree on a Court Pick… in Today’s Wisconsin Primary Sanders and Clinton Agree on a Court Pick… in Today’s Wisconsin Primary

Both candidates are criticizing a state Supreme Court justice with a history of extreme writings and close ties to Governor Scott Walker.

Apr 5, 2016 / John Nichols

Scott Walker at Conservative Summit

Sanders and Clinton Are Campaigning Hard in Wisconsin… Against Scott Walker Sanders and Clinton Are Campaigning Hard in Wisconsin… Against Scott Walker

Clinton calls the governor “a bully,” while Sanders says Walker is “everything that we are opposing.”

Apr 4, 2016 / John Nichols

Kasich

Half of the Abortion Clinics in Ohio Have Closed. And Kasich Is a ‘Moderate’? Half of the Abortion Clinics in Ohio Have Closed. And Kasich Is a ‘Moderate’?

Since when does moderate mean “one who does everything in his power to destroy women’s reproductive rights”?

Mar 31, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed

Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed

Nothing sums up the high-drama, low-substance nature of 2016 race coverage more than the underplaying of a serious speech about the Supreme Court.

Mar 31, 2016 / John Nichols

The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump

The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump The Importance of Palmyra, Colonizing Kiev, and Donald Trump

The Syrian-Russian retaking of a major ISIS stronghold and the West’s further control over the Kiev government refute the orthodox US narrative of the new Cold War, which Trump is ...

Mar 30, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen

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? 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 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

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

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

President Barack Obama.

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

Donald Trump

Don’t Blame It All on Donald Trump Don’t Blame It All on Donald Trump

To treat Trump’s candidacy as an anomaly is to overlook the system that gave birth to it.

Mar 28, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt

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