Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is to Spend Less on Infrastructure Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is to Spend Less on Infrastructure
The administration’s plan is to spend money with one hand, and take it away with the other.
Feb 13, 2018 / David Dayen
How Should We Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain? How Should We Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain?
The drive to pathologize Trump isn’t going away, and neither, alas, is he.
Feb 13, 2018 / David M. Perry
For Immigrants in Trump’s America, the Dystopian Future Has Already Arrived For Immigrants in Trump’s America, the Dystopian Future Has Already Arrived
Documented and undocumented, young and old, immigrants are being swept up throughout the country.
Feb 13, 2018 / Moustafa Bayoumi
The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race
We need to revive momentum for reducing nuclear weapons, not for “modernizing” them.
Feb 13, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Randy Bryce’s Campaign Is Not Just Pro-Union—It’s Unionized Randy Bryce’s Campaign Is Not Just Pro-Union—It’s Unionized
The Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated its first collectively bargained contract, with the Democratic candidate challenging Paul Ryan.
Feb 12, 2018 / John Nichols
The ‘Right-to-Try’ Unproven Pharmaceuticals Is a Right-Wing Scheme The ‘Right-to-Try’ Unproven Pharmaceuticals Is a Right-Wing Scheme
Proposals to loosen the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of experimental drugs sound compassionate—but there’s little evidence they’ll help patients.
Feb 12, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter
Shoved Aside Again, DACA Activists Keep Fighting Shoved Aside Again, DACA Activists Keep Fighting
To undocumented youth activists, public gestures by Democrats ring hollow.
Feb 9, 2018 / Julianne Hing
What We’ve Learned in Year 1 of Russiagate What We’ve Learned in Year 1 of Russiagate
The relentless pursuit of this narrative above all else has had dangerous consequences.
Feb 9, 2018 / Aaron Maté
John Kelly Has Got to Go John Kelly Has Got to Go
His awful response to domestic-abuse charges involving a top aide is just the latest in a series of toxic blunders.
Feb 8, 2018 / John Nichols
Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue
Hans and Franz economics… Fear and self-loathing… Millennials vs. boomers… Agree to disagree… Taxation and miseducation…
Feb 8, 2018 / Our Readers