Cold-War Casualties From Ukraine and Syria to the New York Times’s ‘Standards’ Cold-War Casualties From Ukraine and Syria to the New York Times’s ‘Standards’
Factional politics may have killed Obama’s proposed détente with Russia and the Minsk peace process in Ukraine, while the Times publishes another gutter article—this one about Paul...
Aug 17, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen
The New Anti-Trump Blame Game The New Anti-Trump Blame Game
First it was the liberals who caused the right-wing takeover of the GOP. Now it’s the pundits who saw it coming.
Aug 17, 2016 / Eric Alterman
The Phony Populism of Donald Trump The Phony Populism of Donald Trump
Defeating Trump means unapologetically embracing the progressive populism needed to move the country forward.
Aug 16, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What Donald Trump Got Very Wrong About Sexual Harassment What Donald Trump Got Very Wrong About Sexual Harassment
Katha Pollitt on Fox News, plus Ari Berman on voting-rights victories, and Dave Zirin in Rio.
Aug 11, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Will the Public Internet Survive? Will the Public Internet Survive?
For Scott Malcomson, the Web is slowly being redefined according to the old political maps of nation-states.
Aug 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Tekendra Parmar
Donald Trump Is Already Setting Up His Next Con Donald Trump Is Already Setting Up His Next Con
Trump’s lies about election rigging will do real damage to a Clinton presidency.
Aug 9, 2016 / Joan Walsh
The Circus and This Year’s Presidential Election Have More in Common Than You Think The Circus and This Year’s Presidential Election Have More in Common Than You Think
Elephants, a ringleader who’s a walking Ponzi scheme, and insults flying left and right—welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth.
Aug 9, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt
One More Media Organization Just Admitted: Unpaid Internships Have to Go One More Media Organization Just Admitted: Unpaid Internships Have to Go
An organizing drive at New York Public Radio’s WNYC yielded an unlikely victory for interns—a paycheck.
Aug 8, 2016 / Natalie Pattillo
Obama Expands the ISIS Bombing Campaign to a 4th Country, the Media Barely Notice Obama Expands the ISIS Bombing Campaign to a 4th Country, the Media Barely Notice
What began two years ago as “limited” air strikes in Iraq now includes Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya—all with little public debate.
Aug 5, 2016 / Adam Johnson
Cold War, Détente, Neo-McCarthyism, and Donald Trump Cold War, Détente, Neo-McCarthyism, and Donald Trump
The missing pro-détente argument may now be provoked by Donald Trump but is being suppressed by McCarthy-like attacks on the improbable messenger.
Aug 3, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen