The GOP Is Winning the War on Voting

Voters in fourteen states—many with tight races—will face new restrictions at the polling booth for the first time in November.

Ari Berman

Even Red-State Voters Want to Raise the Minimum Wage

Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying no.

John Nichols

A Q&A With Charles Blow on Race, Poverty, Sexual Predators and the CIA

The New York Times columnist discusses his new book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

Jon Wiener

How Art Can Change Minds

Political cartoons can move only if they surprise.

Mr. Fish

Snapshot: Riot for the Return of the Disappeared

Hundreds of students and teachers clashed with riot police in Chilpancingo, Mexico, after forty-three student activists went missing following a confrontation with local police in September. The discovery of ten mass graves in the area have spread fears about the students’ fate at the hands of police linked to the drug cartels. Read More

Felix Marquez

A New Documentary Profiles Liars for Hire

Today’s corporations have taken a page from the tobacco industry, fooling the public and undermining science in order to boost profits, no matter the human cost.

Eric Alterman

Will Your Child Grow Up to Be Victim or Torturer?

While 90 percent of teens break the law, only some enter a violent system.

Patricia J. Williams

Texas Voter-ID Law Reinstated

Calvin Trillin

Letters

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