Why ‘Overmatch’ Is Overkill

The Pentagon’s strategy for global supremacy could bankrupt the country and spark a world war.

Michael T. Klare

The Battle Over NAFTA 2.0 Has Just Begun

Progressives must fight strategically to improve it—if they don’t, the consequences could be devastating.

Lori Wallach

The 2018 Progressive Honor Roll

​Progressives were on the move this year, and they weren’t just resisting Trump—they were outlining the alternative to Trumpism.

John Nichols

Marc Lamont Hill Was Arguing for the Rights of Humans, Not of States

The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech.

Phyllis Bennis and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

What’s It Like to Work at Amazon?

Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate offers an unsparing portrait of a German Amazon warehouse.

Alex Press

In the Cold War’s Bloodlands

A new history of the Cold War examines how the 45 years of peace between its rival superpowers were also 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

Daniel Immerwahr

What the Parrot Said

David Kirby

The Microscopes

Jericho Brown

The Anarchic Fun of Vince Staples

On the rapper’s new album, FM!, he relishes any opportunity to inject gravity and grim contradiction into pure party jams.   

Stephen Kearse