Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey
The former Greek finance minister is on a quest to unite the global left.
Dec 13, 2018 / Feature / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The Ideas Primary The Ideas Primary
US presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy—instead of personality—is that such a bad thing?
Dec 10, 2018 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
Letters From the December 31, 2018, Issue Letters From the December 31, 2018, Issue
The perils of make-work… Government workers, unite!… The edible is political (web-only)…
Dec 6, 2018 / Our Readers and Jon Wiener
The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms. The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms.
Sure, the Senate will block them. But pushing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for All will energize grassroots activists and supercharge the coming presidential primary.
Dec 6, 2018 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
The White House Has Hosted a Predators’ Ball of Corruption The White House Has Hosted a Predators’ Ball of Corruption
Here’s how the incoming Democratic Congress can expose it and make the case for bold reform.
Dec 6, 2018 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed
How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit.
Nov 27, 2018 / Feature / Dave Lindorff
GM’s Plant Closures Confirm the President is a Liar and a Fool GM’s Plant Closures Confirm the President is a Liar and a Fool
He has never cared about the men and women who build cars in places like Michigan and Ohio.
Nov 26, 2018 / John Nichols
Antitrust For The Many, Not The Few Antitrust For The Many, Not The Few
Somebody needs to challenge Facebook's outsized power over the media. It should be a cooperative association, not another unaccountable behemoth.
Nov 20, 2018 / Nathan Schneider
The Scam at the Heart of New York’s Amazon Deal The Scam at the Heart of New York’s Amazon Deal
New York is struggling with competing housing, education, and transit crises. So why is it giving billions to a voracious mega-monopoly?
Nov 19, 2018 / Jarrett Murphy
Progressive Economics Are Ascendant—Among Democrats, and at the Ballot Box Progressive Economics Are Ascendant—Among Democrats, and at the Ballot Box
It’s good politics and good policy, and should be a winning formula in 2020.
Nov 15, 2018 / Chris Hughes