How the Kaepernick Effect Reached Small-Town Iowa How the Kaepernick Effect Reached Small-Town Iowa
Taking a knee was controversial in the NFL. Imagine the reaction in “Steve King country.”
Sep 24, 2021 / Dave Zirin
Republican Representative Lauren Boebert Goes Full Blunderbuss Republican Representative Lauren Boebert Goes Full Blunderbuss
The insurrection cheerleader’s HR 273 would spell the end of constituent services as we know it.
Sep 24, 2021 / Tom Gogola
Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden’s Plan? Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden’s Plan?
If Democrats allow the party’s Manchinema wing to derail prescription drug pricing reforms, they could lose their ability to govern.
Sep 23, 2021 / Column / John Nichols
Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance
The line from defeat in Afghanistan to deputizing bounty hunters in Texas can be traced in blood—and history.
Sep 22, 2021 / John Scagliotti and JoAnn Wypijewski
Debate and Controversy Make History Education Better Debate and Controversy Make History Education Better
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States didn’t make students hate America—and nor does Critical Race Theory or the 1619 Project.
Sep 22, 2021 / Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction
In her new novel, Wayward, Spiotta offers an intricate portrait of how one woman experienced the uncertain days and months after Trump’s election.
Sep 22, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick
It’s Time to Break Up the Military-Industrial Complex It’s Time to Break Up the Military-Industrial Complex
Despite the end of two decades of war, a congressional committee just voted to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $24 billion.
Sep 21, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist? Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?
Two OWS participants debate the ideology at the core of the anti-capitalist movement.
Sep 21, 2021 / The Debate / Natasha Lennard and Nikil Saval
Bernie Sanders Backs Canada’s Left Rival to Justin Trudeau Bernie Sanders Backs Canada’s Left Rival to Justin Trudeau
The New Democratic Party and its dynamic young leader, Jagmeet Singh, score a cross-border endorsement.
Sep 20, 2021 / Column / John Nichols
The Age of Irrationality The Age of Irrationality
With the rise of QAnon and the anti-vax movement, skepticism has become the province of the paranoid.
Sep 20, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt