The Right

Biden Afghanistan War

It’s Time to Break Up the Military-Industrial Complex It’s Time to Break Up the Military-Industrial Complex

Despite the end of two decades of war, a congressional committee just voted to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $24 billion.

Sep 21, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Age of Irrationality

The Age of Irrationality The Age of Irrationality

With the rise of QAnon and the anti-vax movement, skepticism has become the province of the paranoid.

Sep 20, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A mobile Covid test site in Times Square

Covid Is Here to Stay. This Is How We Should Respond. Covid Is Here to Stay. This Is How We Should Respond.

Learning to live with Covid-19 is not an individual state of mind.

Sep 17, 2021 / Column / Abdullah Shihipar

California Recall Gavin Newsom Kamala Harris

The California Recall Election Is Up for Grabs The California Recall Election Is Up for Grabs

The state of American democracy, from the division of power between parties to the integrity of elections, hangs in the balance.

Sep 10, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

Greg Abbott and Donald Trump

Texas Is the New Republican Template Texas Is the New Republican Template

What’s happening there is about much more than the fight over reproductive rights. It’s about political control.

Sep 8, 2021 / John Nichols

How to Stop Abortion Opponents

How to Stop Abortion Opponents How to Stop Abortion Opponents

The only solution is mass mobilization.

Sep 7, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Donald Trump

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party

Despite what it says, the GOP is the party of capital, not labor.

Sep 3, 2021 / John Nichols

Activists protest the Texas abortion ban

This Is What the First Hours of a Near-Total Ban on Abortion Look Like This Is What the First Hours of a Near-Total Ban on Abortion Look Like

The Texas law SB 8 will force abortion clinics in the state to turn away about 80 percent of all patients.

Sep 2, 2021 / Amy Littlefield

Senator Ron Johnson

Ron Johnson Gets Caught Debunking the Big Lie Ron Johnson Gets Caught Debunking the Big Lie

After months of amplifying Donald Trump’s claims about 2020 election “fraud,” the senator is captured on tape admitting the truth: Trump lost.

Sep 2, 2021 / John Nichols

Trump and Orban

Go Ahead, Worry! A Worst-Case Scenario for American Democracy Go Ahead, Worry! A Worst-Case Scenario for American Democracy

The American far right has transformed politics in unprecedented ways. Can this be reversed?

Sep 1, 2021 / Robert Crawford

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