Political Ideologies

The Immense Irony of the GOP’s Anti-Socialism Vote

The Immense Irony of the GOP’s Anti-Socialism Vote The Immense Irony of the GOP’s Anti-Socialism Vote

Republicans are crowing over their resolution denouncing socialism, but their next presidential candidate will be chosen in a city that socialism built.

Feb 6, 2023 / John Nichols

US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver the State of the Union address on March 1, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Biden, Go Bold in the State of the Union Biden, Go Bold in the State of the Union

What he needs to say.

Feb 6, 2023 / Robert L. Borosage

QAnon Is the Latest American Conspiracy Theory

QAnon Is the Latest American Conspiracy Theory QAnon Is the Latest American Conspiracy Theory

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

Feb 6, 2023 / Feature / Chris Lehmann

Josh Hawley holding pencil in front of microphone

The GOP’s Phony Class War The GOP’s Phony Class War

Racist resentment plus plutocratic economics don’t equal a “working-class party.”

Feb 3, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Today’s GOP Is the Totalitarian Force It Claims to Oppose

Today’s GOP Is the Totalitarian Force It Claims to Oppose Today’s GOP Is the Totalitarian Force It Claims to Oppose

The right’s intrusion into private life is exactly the characteristic of modern authoritarianism decried by 20th-century conservatives.

Feb 3, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

Ilhan Omar Will Not Be Silenced

Ilhan Omar Will Not Be Silenced Ilhan Omar Will Not Be Silenced

The GOP’s decision to remove Omar from her most cherished committee was petty and cruel—but she’s not going anywhere.

Feb 3, 2023 / John Nichols

General Motors workers strike on September 14, 1970.

Will New Leadership Make the UAW Labor’s Vanguard Once Again? Will New Leadership Make the UAW Labor’s Vanguard Once Again?

In the wake of a corruption scandal, the autoworkers' union leadership faces the first contested election in over three-quarters of a century. But the old guard won't go without a ...

Feb 2, 2023 / Nelson Lichtenstein

Our Democracy Is More Fragile Than We Would Like to Think

Our Democracy Is More Fragile Than We Would Like to Think Our Democracy Is More Fragile Than We Would Like to Think

The insurrections in the United States and Brazil simply demonstrated what has always been true.

Feb 1, 2023 / Karen J. Greenberg

How the Party of White Reaction Brands Itself as the Party of Lincoln

How the Party of White Reaction Brands Itself as the Party of Lincoln How the Party of White Reaction Brands Itself as the Party of Lincoln

GOP leaders ransack the party’s past to whitewash its contemporary white-nationalist agenda.

Feb 1, 2023 / Anthony Conwright

Person reads a stack of explicit or LGBTQ books

Florida Teachers Hide Their Books to Avoid Felonies Florida Teachers Hide Their Books to Avoid Felonies

Panicky teachers in Florida are emptying their bookshelves, afraid of a five-year jail term for having an unapproved book in the classroom.

Feb 1, 2023 / Joan Walsh

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