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Rand Paul Is Fighting for Your Privacy—Unless You’re a Woman

Rand Paul Is Fighting for Your Privacy—Unless You’re a Woman Rand Paul Is Fighting for Your Privacy—Unless You’re a Woman

If he really believed in “the right to be left alone,” he’d fight for women to have as much control over their bodies as their phone records.

May 12, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Could Fast Track Ultimately Destroy Dodd-Frank? (Yes.)

Could Fast Track Ultimately Destroy Dodd-Frank? (Yes.) Could Fast Track Ultimately Destroy Dodd-Frank? (Yes.)

The White House has been going hard against Elizabeth Warren for making this claim—but she’s right.

May 12, 2015 / George Zornick

‘The Iranians Are Coming!’

‘The Iranians Are Coming!’ ‘The Iranians Are Coming!’

Apart from widespread fear of Iran, this year’s Al Jazeera Forum in Doha was mostly a display of the Arab world’s many deep fissures.

May 12, 2015 / Juan Cole

The Emerging Populist Agenda

The Emerging Populist Agenda The Emerging Populist Agenda

The clear presence of a populist reform agenda might be the biggest surprise of the 2016 election season thus far.

May 12, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

It’s a Conspiracy! How to Discredit Seymour Hersh

It’s a Conspiracy! How to Discredit Seymour Hersh It’s a Conspiracy! How to Discredit Seymour Hersh

The veteran investigative journalist debunked the official version of the bin Laden killing—now there's a rush to smear him.

May 12, 2015 / Greg Grandin

When TPP Meets the Populist Menace

When TPP Meets the Populist Menace When TPP Meets the Populist Menace

The “reach across the aisle” was going according to plan... until the Populist Avenger showed up.

May 12, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

Chris Burden and ‘The Other Vietnam Memorial’

Chris Burden and ‘The Other Vietnam Memorial’ Chris Burden and ‘The Other Vietnam Memorial’

Three million Vietnamese names, etched on copper plates 13 feet high.

May 11, 2015 / Jon Wiener

Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal

Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal

The president’s suggestion that his critics do not understand trade issues is “absolutely inaccurate.”

May 11, 2015 / John Nichols

A Major Defense Contractor Buys Its Way Back Into the Spying Business

A Major Defense Contractor Buys Its Way Back Into the Spying Business A Major Defense Contractor Buys Its Way Back Into the Spying Business

What we can learn from contractors about intelligence—and the CIA.

May 11, 2015 / Tim Shorrock

Hillary-Clinton

Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom. So Will She Change Her Mind About Welfare Reform? Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom. So Will She Change Her Mind About Welfare Reform?

Clinton said as recently as the 2008 campaign that welfare reform was a success, but its track record has proven otherwise for the country’s poorest.

May 11, 2015 / Bryce Covert

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