Government

Obama and King Salman

The United States Is Waging 2 Contradictory Wars in Syria The United States Is Waging 2 Contradictory Wars in Syria

Our funding and support are simultaneously aiming to topple Assad, and to destroy ISIS—and those goals are in conflict.

Jan 26, 2016 / James Carden

Note to Hillary: Clintonomics Was a Disaster for Most Americans

Note to Hillary: Clintonomics Was a Disaster for Most Americans Note to Hillary: Clintonomics Was a Disaster for Most Americans

Under Bill Clinton, Wall Street created a ruinous bubble, while workers lost wages and power.

Jan 26, 2016 / Robert Pollin

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Is the Realist We Should Elect Bernie Sanders Is the Realist We Should Elect

Sanders’s message is clear: Trust yourself. Come together, take back the country and make this nation better. 

Jan 26, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan

What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan

Reagan was a liberal Democrat who decried wrongheaded Republicans before he became the conservative hero of wrongheaded Republicans.

Jan 25, 2016 / John Nichols

The 94-Year-Old Civil-Rights Pioneer Who Is Now Challenging North Carolina’s Voter-ID Law

The 94-Year-Old Civil-Rights Pioneer Who Is Now Challenging North Carolina’s Voter-ID Law The 94-Year-Old Civil-Rights Pioneer Who Is Now Challenging North Carolina’s Voter-ID Law

Can Rosanell Eaton succeed in getting the new voter-ID law blocked before the 2016 election?

Jan 25, 2016 / Ari Berman

Why I’m Rooting for Ted Cruz to Win Iowa and New Hampshire

Why I’m Rooting for Ted Cruz to Win Iowa and New Hampshire Why I’m Rooting for Ted Cruz to Win Iowa and New Hampshire

Trump has warmth and humor, and can at least mimic the sound of empathy.

Jan 22, 2016 / Leslie Savan

(AP Photo / Sean Rayford)

Ted Cruz Is Smart, Disciplined, and Has a Strategy to Win Ted Cruz Is Smart, Disciplined, and Has a Strategy to Win

Time to worry.

Jan 22, 2016 / George Zornick

Donald Trump Is Ridiculously Wrong About William F. Buckley

Donald Trump Is Ridiculously Wrong About William F. Buckley Donald Trump Is Ridiculously Wrong About William F. Buckley

The billionaire thinks the conservative icon would object to National Review’s “Against Trump” issue. But Buckley decried Trump as a demagogue.

Jan 22, 2016 / John Nichols

Bernie’s Greatest Weakness

Bernie’s Greatest Weakness Bernie’s Greatest Weakness

Race and gender issues frequently seem like an afterthought to him, and he doesn’t embrace them with anywhere near the fervor he devotes to economic inequality.

Jan 22, 2016 / Kathleen Geier

Iraqi army vehicle

Why Do All of the Pentagon’s ‘Successes’ in Iraq Look More Like Failures? Why Do All of the Pentagon’s ‘Successes’ in Iraq Look More Like Failures?

The only thing the US military has succeeded at is believing its own propaganda.

Jan 21, 2016 / Nick Turse

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