Executive Branch

Bernie Sanders New Hampshire

The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It? The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It?

The right person will understand one crucial thing that Barack Obama did not get. 

Apr 8, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage

House passes bill to end Yemen war

Congress Finally Pushes Back Against the Imperial Presidency With a Vote to Cut US Support for the War in Yemen Congress Finally Pushes Back Against the Imperial Presidency With a Vote to Cut US Support for the War in Yemen

In a historic move, the House joins the Senate in passing a War Powers Resolution to end unauthorized US participation in a foreign conflict.

Apr 4, 2019 / John Nichols

Shutdown Worker

The ‘Best Economy’ Ever Isn’t Working for Working People The ‘Best Economy’ Ever Isn’t Working for Working People

Trumpism has failed Americans even at the height of the recovery.

Apr 2, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement

A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement

Now the 18,000 Arkansans who lost health-care coverage are eligible to get it back.

Mar 28, 2019 / Bryce Covert

Rachel Maddow

The Real Costs of Russiagate The Real Costs of Russiagate

Its perpetrators, not Putin or Trump, “attacked American democracy.”

Mar 27, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Robert Mueller sworn in

RIP, Russiagate RIP, Russiagate

The implosion of the collusion theory is a humiliation for everyone who promoted it.

Mar 26, 2019 / Aaron Maté

Iraq US Coalition Airstrike

It Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War It Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War

We need space for real dissent from the views of a foreign policy establishment that has so clearly failed us.

Mar 26, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

the white house

The President Has Not Been Exonerated The President Has Not Been Exonerated

In addition to demanding the release of the Mueller report, Congress must examine actions by William Barr that call into question the AG's objectivity.

Mar 25, 2019 / John Nichols

Mueller Capitol

No, the Media Didn’t Over-Hype ‘Russiagate’ No, the Media Didn’t Over-Hype ‘Russiagate’

No human being on Earth has done more to keep the Trump-Russia narrative in the news than Donald Trump.

Mar 25, 2019 / Joshua Holland

Women protest global gag rule

Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Making It Harder to Fight the AIDS Crisis Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Making It Harder to Fight the AIDS Crisis

The Trump administration says it is leading the global fight against HIV and AIDS—and then shoots itself in the foot.

Mar 25, 2019 / Michelle Chen

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