When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short
Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.
May 18, 2022 / Jonathan Zimmerman
Gleaning Hope From Latin America’s Abortion Rights Revolution Gleaning Hope From Latin America’s Abortion Rights Revolution
After centuries of living under some of the most draconian abortion laws imaginable, millions of women in Latin America now have access to legal abortion. How did they do it?
May 18, 2022 / Omar G. Encarnación
The US Needs a Better Gun Policy. Democrats Can Make It Happen. The US Needs a Better Gun Policy. Democrats Can Make It Happen.
The gun control movement faces many challenges, but advocates’ passion is rising.
May 17, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Pandemic Revealed America’s Deeper Sickness The Pandemic Revealed America’s Deeper Sickness
How the pandemic seeded new Astroturf for the right.
May 17, 2022 / Nina Burleigh
The War on the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party The War on the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party
Corporate interests are coming for the millions of progressive voters who joined with the center left to elect Joe Biden and a Democratic Congress.
May 16, 2022 / Jeff Weaver
The Ideas Behind the Buffalo Massacre Are Now Mainstream on the Right The Ideas Behind the Buffalo Massacre Are Now Mainstream on the Right
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Elise Stefanik: They’ve all revved-up loons who hate Jews, people of color, and immigrants, and some want to kill.
May 16, 2022 / Joan Walsh
Elise Stefanik’s Crocodile Tears Over the Buffalo Massacre Elise Stefanik’s Crocodile Tears Over the Buffalo Massacre
Two opportunists demonstrate the triumph of Trumpist racism and conspiracy theories.
May 16, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Summer Lee Is Exactly What a Democrat Should Be Summer Lee Is Exactly What a Democrat Should Be
A super PAC is smearing Lee as a threat to the Democratic Party as she campaigns to become the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress.
May 13, 2022 / John Nichols
“The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings “The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings
Its next editor, Joe Kahn, needs to get it back on course.
May 13, 2022 / Dan Froomkin
Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach
The obituaries for the founding mother of neoconservatism fail to give a sense of how vile her opinions really were.
May 13, 2022 / Jeet Heer