‘The Election Is a Sham’: A Q&A With Cambodian Opposition Leader Kem Monovithya ‘The Election Is a Sham’: A Q&A With Cambodian Opposition Leader Kem Monovithya
Cambodians head to the polls on July 29, but there is no viable opposition left on the ballot.
Jul 26, 2018 / Q&A / Safiya Charles
The Republican Congress Isn’t Even Pretending to Do Its Job The Republican Congress Isn’t Even Pretending to Do Its Job
It’s much easier to let judges and appointees do the unpopular work of stripping workers of their rights, outlawing abortion, and running the administrative state into the ground.
Jul 24, 2018 / Ed Burmila
Wall Street’s Ties to the Private Immigrant-Detention Network Wall Street’s Ties to the Private Immigrant-Detention Network
A grassroots movement to divest from private prison companies running immigrant-detention facilities is gaining steam.
Jul 24, 2018 / Michelle Chen
Say No to a Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census Say No to a Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census
Americans have until August 7 to tell the Commerce Department that a question cooked up by Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach is dangerous and misguided.
Jul 23, 2018 / Vanita Gupta
Donald Trump’s Flight 93 Doctrine Donald Trump’s Flight 93 Doctrine
This might be the most self-defeating approach ever adopted by a modern American president.
Jul 23, 2018 / John Feffer
Hunting Season Hunting Season
The artist age 6 with her first gun.
Jul 23, 2018 / OppArt / Katerina Spilio
Trump’s War on Children Trump’s War on Children
White House policies form an unprecedented assault on kids—but, of course, not the white kids.
Jul 20, 2018 / Aziz Huq
How the Trump Administration Is Normalizing Immigrant Internment Camps How the Trump Administration Is Normalizing Immigrant Internment Camps
If the Muslim ban is any guide, an idea that was once considered insane will soon become acceptable.
Jul 20, 2018 / Column / Laila Lalami
Constitutional Lawyer Bruce Fein on the Effort to Stop ‘Presidential Wars’ Constitutional Lawyer Bruce Fein on the Effort to Stop ‘Presidential Wars’
He’s proposing legislation that could halt extrajudicial US military intervention.
Jul 19, 2018 / James Carden
How Government Secrecy on Torture Has Stymied the 9/11 Terror Prosecution How Government Secrecy on Torture Has Stymied the 9/11 Terror Prosecution
This case is the last front in the long-running battle over the Bush-era torture regime.
Jul 19, 2018 / Lisa Hajjar