Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control
Gun extremists in Congress, heavily backed by weapons manufacturers and the NRA, wield wildly disproportionate influence.
Oct 8, 2015 / The Editors
Letters From the October 26, 2015, Issue Letters From the October 26, 2015, Issue
Papal buzzkill… sister act… Bern, baby, bern… fuzzy math?… Greider the great…
Oct 8, 2015 / Our Readers and Bryce Covert
Comix Nation Comix Nation
Oct 8, 2015 / Jen Sorensen
Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why? Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why?
The mild-mannered reactionary used to be the anti-Trump. Now he’s one-upping him on guns. This won’t end well.
Oct 7, 2015 / Joan Walsh
Insider Trading Hits the Sports World Insider Trading Hits the Sports World
FanDuel and DraftKings are enmeshed in a rank scandal whose stink has spread to their sports league partners as well as ESPN.
Oct 7, 2015 / Dave Zirin
The New Cold War Is Now Being Waged on Three Fronts: Ukraine, Europe and Syria The New Cold War Is Now Being Waged on Three Fronts: Ukraine, Europe and Syria
It need not be on any of them.
Oct 7, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen
Laurie Anderson’s Guantánamo Installation Goes Where Obama Fears to Tread Laurie Anderson’s Guantánamo Installation Goes Where Obama Fears to Tread
The US government has abdicated its role in prosecuting those responsible for torture following 9/11. It has fallen on civil society to take up the charge.
Oct 7, 2015 / John Knefel
October 7, 1998: Matthew Shepard Is Found Brutally Tortured and Left for Dead October 7, 1998: Matthew Shepard Is Found Brutally Tortured and Left for Dead
“The demagogy of the political classes legitimizes the irrational, dehumanizing queer-fear that motors these assaults.”
Oct 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Ralph Nader, the People’s Curator Ralph Nader, the People’s Curator
The consumer advocate’s new American Museum of Tort Law honors the legacy of the “weapon of the weak.”
Oct 6, 2015 / Mark Green
Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue
Clinton just came out with a tough plan to tighten gun laws. Will Sanders stick to his guns—or try a new approach?
Oct 5, 2015 / Joan Walsh