If Trump Wants to Defeat ISIS, He’d Better Stop Alienating Muslims

From the Salafi Muslims who beat the terrorists in Libya to the Shiite militias of Iraq, they are crucial allies in this fight.

Juan Cole

Resisting Trump Is Not Enough

Progressives also need to advance a concrete agenda, and that means taking on Democrats-In-Name-Only.

Robert L. Borosage

Why Trump Lies

Rattled by the resistance movement, Trump and his sycophants are just making stuff up.

John Nichols

Populists in Place

Calvin Trillin

Honor Is a Tool for Repression in the Age of Trump

Shutting up Elizabeth Warren is part of a long tradition of upholding gentlemen’s status at the expense of truth.

Patricia J. Williams

The Trump-Bibi-Murdoch Love Triangle Puts Us All at Risk

Flouting the laws and sacrificing truth, the new mogul empire is a perpetual-motion machine fueled almost entirely on bullshit.

Eric Alterman

Letters From the March 6, 2017, Issue

The illegitimate president… Life, death, and the ACA… Resistance primer
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