Election 2016

Dropout Remorse

Dropout Remorse Dropout Remorse

So what was so bad about Walker? Was Perry that god-awful slow? And though Bobby Jindal Could see his polls dwindle, Just why did he give up and go? Yes, once I disdained all these…

Dec 3, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Why Are Democrats Silent on Rahm Emanuel?

Why Are Democrats Silent on Rahm Emanuel? Why Are Democrats Silent on Rahm Emanuel?

If you care about police brutality, you care even when “your team” needs to be held accountable.

Dec 3, 2015 / George Zornick

Bernie Sanders

Why You Should Vote for Bernie Sanders in the WFP’s Open Primary Why You Should Vote for Bernie Sanders in the WFP’s Open Primary

There’s no better opportunity to influence the 2016 presidential race than this primary—and polls are open now.

Dec 2, 2015 / Ted Fertik

Democratic presidential candidate Sanders greets students after a town hall meeting with students at George Mason University in Fairfax

Bernie Sanders’s ‘College for All’ Plan Is Fair, Smart and Achievable Bernie Sanders’s ‘College for All’ Plan Is Fair, Smart and Achievable

Of all the candidates, only Sanders proposes an alternative to the neoliberal model of higher ed.

Dec 2, 2015 / Heather Gautney and Adolph Reed Jr.

Vladimir Putin

A Time for Fateful Decisions A Time for Fateful Decisions

Great powers, current and would-be political leaders, and opinion-shapers must now decide: with or versus Russia against terrorism.

Dec 2, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen

Citizens United protest

Open Letter: Let’s Sit-In to Save Democracy From the Billionaire Class Open Letter: Let’s Sit-In to Save Democracy From the Billionaire Class

More than 1,000 people have pledged to join progressive leaders in a congressional sit-in, to take our elections back from moneyed special interests.

Dec 2, 2015 / Rhana Bazzini, Medea Benjamin, Ben Cohen, Jodie Evans, Joseph Huff-Hannon, Lawrence Lessig, Joan Mandle, Kai Newkirk, Carlos Saavedra, Umi Selah, Paul Song, Zephyr Teachout, Cenk Uygur, and Winnie Wong

This Is Bernie Sanders’s Immigration Plan

This Is Bernie Sanders’s Immigration Plan This Is Bernie Sanders’s Immigration Plan

If O’Malley had set the bar to meet, Sanders has reached it. But does it matter politically?

Dec 1, 2015 / Julianne Hing

Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof, 21, into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. Roof, a 21-year-old with a criminal record, is accused of killing nine people at a Bible-study meeting in a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina.

How to Understand White Male Terrorism How to Understand White Male Terrorism

We’ve been here before, and we know that violent backlash is at its fiercest when movements for racial and gender justice are winning.

Nov 30, 2015 / Max Berger

GOP Colorado debate

Let the GOP Hunger Games Begin Let the GOP Hunger Games Begin

The six top Republican candidates take economic policy into the wilderness.

Nov 30, 2015 / Nomi Prins

Dem Forum

Which Democrat Will Pass the Working Families Test? Which Democrat Will Pass the Working Families Test?

The Working Families Party is asking its members to help decide whom to back for president.

Nov 30, 2015 / John Nichols

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