A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges
Take on Wall Street sets the stage for the next wave of financial reform.
May 31, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tell Democratic and Republican Leaders to Get On Board With Ending Mass Incarceration Tell Democratic and Republican Leaders to Get On Board With Ending Mass Incarceration
Past party platforms have not only failed to call for reform—they’ve championed tougher punishments.
May 31, 2016 / NationAction
Obama’s Powerful Call to ‘Make War Less Likely and Cruelty Less Easily Accepted’ Obama’s Powerful Call to ‘Make War Less Likely and Cruelty Less Easily Accepted’
Speaking in Hiroshima, the president channels Eisenhower’s urging to take “the chance for a just peace for all peoples.”
May 27, 2016 / John Nichols
Sanders Has Always Wanted to Debate Trump—or Any Other Representative of the ‘Billionaire Class’ Sanders Has Always Wanted to Debate Trump—or Any Other Representative of the ‘Billionaire Class’
The notion of a one-on-one debate with a Republican presidential contender has long intrigued the Democratic presidential contender.
May 27, 2016 / John Nichols
Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for Stating What Should Be Obvious: Trump’s Campaign Is Racist Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for Stating What Should Be Obvious: Trump’s Campaign Is Racist
The former president has long modeled how white leaders can and should disavow white supremacy.
May 26, 2016 / Imara Jones
Making Trump ‘Presidential’ Making Trump ‘Presidential’
The leap from common man to dignified leader of the free world is part of the national myth. But Donald Trump requires a real-life fairy tale we haven’t seen before.
May 26, 2016 / Leslie Savan
Remembering Marcia Moody: The Amazing Legislator Who Took On ALEC and Austerity Remembering Marcia Moody: The Amazing Legislator Who Took On ALEC and Austerity
A New Hampshire progressive, who became one of the nation’s leading critics of corporate dominance of state legislatures, has died.
May 26, 2016 / John Nichols
Anthony Weiner Wasn’t the Only One Who Couldn’t Stop Exposing Himself Anthony Weiner Wasn’t the Only One Who Couldn’t Stop Exposing Himself
A new documentary reveals the media’s narrow fixation on political sex scandals.
May 25, 2016 / Eric Alterman
Progressive Women Are Running for Office All Over the Country Progressive Women Are Running for Office All Over the Country
The anti-Trump candidacies of Teachout, Jayapal, and Flores should serve as a reminder that, as important as the presidency is, the White House is not the only thing at stake in 20...
May 24, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
When Donald Trump Says His Foreign Policy Is ‘America First’—What Exactly Does He Mean? When Donald Trump Says His Foreign Policy Is ‘America First’—What Exactly Does He Mean?
Four experts consider how exactly Trump might go about making America great again.
May 24, 2016 / Sherle R. Schwenninger, Heather Hurlburt, Stephen Kinzer, and Juan Cole