Political Figures

Sanders-Warren Rally in Boston

Sanders and Warren Are Challenging the Post–Cold War Foreign-Policy Establishment Sanders and Warren Are Challenging the Post–Cold War Foreign-Policy Establishment

It is time to think anew. The United States needs dramatic changes in its policies and the institutions that enforce them.

Dec 11, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Sanders Institute Gathering

The Ideas Primary The Ideas Primary

US presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy—instead of personality—is that such a bad thing?

Dec 10, 2018 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

George HW Bush presidential library

To the White People Who Penned Sweeping Love Letters to George H.W. Bush To the White People Who Penned Sweeping Love Letters to George H.W. Bush

Clearly, you never talked to a person of color about the Bush presidencies.

Dec 10, 2018 / Elie Mystal

Donald Trump

A Presidency on Drugs A Presidency on Drugs

The Trump administration makes the news cycle feel like a bad dose of amphetamines.

Dec 6, 2018 / Rebecca Gordon

NATO exercise

New Cold War Dangers New Cold War Dangers

The Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in the Kerch Strait illustrates again how this Cold War is more dangerous that was its predecessor.

Dec 5, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Sanders War Powers Hearing

Congress Takes a Critical Step Toward Reasserting Its War-Powers Control Congress Takes a Critical Step Toward Reasserting Its War-Powers Control

A Senate resolution to end US support for Saudi-led conflict in Yemen shows that the politics of war are finally evolving.

Dec 4, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

George H.W. Bush CIA Swearing

George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World

Obituaries have transformed the terror that Bush inflicted, depicting it as heroism.

Dec 4, 2018 / Greg Grandin

President George HW Bush in 2010

It’s a Disgrace to Celebrate George H.W. Bush on World AIDS Day It’s a Disgrace to Celebrate George H.W. Bush on World AIDS Day

The 41st president’s “civility” hid the vast nature of American state violence.

Dec 1, 2018 / Steven W. Thrasher

Mueller walks through halls of capitol building

Mueller Takes Aim, but Is Trump in Trouble? Mueller Takes Aim, but Is Trump in Trouble?

Why Russiagate’s new bombshells might not be that explosive.

Nov 30, 2018 / Aaron Maté

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DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land

Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression.

Nov 29, 2018 / Aviva Chomsky

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