Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab
An executive order establishing new hiring and firing practices will, if he is reelected, give him extraordinary control over almost the entire civil service.
Oct 27, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile
Do the problems that beset us, so similar to those that plague our Chilean brothers and sisters, not cry out for a radical reimagining of who we are?
Oct 26, 2020 / Ariel Dorfman
Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy
The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as of the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.
Oct 21, 2020 / Mark Weisbrot
Progressives Should Support Biden Now, but Be Ready to Push Later Progressives Should Support Biden Now, but Be Ready to Push Later
The chaos of recent years demands a paradigm shift.
Oct 20, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Progressives Won’t Wait for Biden to Set the Course Progressives Won’t Wait for Biden to Set the Course
If Biden plans to fulfill his campaign trail promise that he’ll be the “most progressive president since FDR,” he’ll have to help lead the push for progressive policies.
Oct 19, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage
A Woman’s Life A Woman’s Life
Some 60,000 nursing home residents have died of the virus. How did they live?
Oct 14, 2020 / JoAnn Wypijewski
America’s Unending Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy America’s Unending Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy
A new history charts the three-centuries long contest between elites seeking to uphold a racial and economic order that benefits them alone and the forces of democracy seeking to d...
Oct 6, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Manisha Sinha
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
Oct 6, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
Trump in the Debate: None Dare Call It Treason Trump in the Debate: None Dare Call It Treason
He’s now in a fascist halfway house—not able to abolish the election process entirely, but secure enough to wink and nod to neo-Nazi street-fighters.
Oct 1, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Fire Donald Trump Fire Donald Trump
We have no illusions about Biden, but we need him to win.
Oct 1, 2020 / The Nation