Politics

Republicans, the Post-Truth Party Republicans, the Post-Truth Party

Why has brazen lying become intrinsic to GOP strategy? Because the party’s actual agenda is so unpopular, so unworkable and so dangerous.

Sep 5, 2012 / The Editors

The GOP’s Welfare Lie The GOP’s Welfare Lie

Let’s at least set the record straight.

Sep 5, 2012 / Betsy Reed

Noted Noted

Aura Bogado on the UndocuBus, Gizelle Lugo on for-proft colleges, Rania Khalek on felon disenfranchisement

Sep 5, 2012 / Various Contributors

Occupy, After Occupy Occupy, After Occupy

One year after Occupy Wall Street first shook the world, what lies ahead for the movement?

Sep 5, 2012 / Feature / Nathan Schneider

New Ways of Thinking About Space New Ways of Thinking About Space

As last year’s occupations showed, cities need more places the public can call its own.

Sep 5, 2012 / Feature / Richard Sennett

Exclusive: Paul Ryan Quietly Requested Obamacare Cash Exclusive: Paul Ryan Quietly Requested Obamacare Cash

In a letter to the Obama administration obtained by the The Nation, Ryan asked that a clinic in his district receive a grant made possible by the Affordable Care Act.

Sep 5, 2012 / Lee Fang

The Washington Post’s Feckless ‘Fact-Check’ The Washington Post’s Feckless ‘Fact-Check’

Afflicted by the elite journalistic disease of “on-the-one-handism,” the MSM’s supposed arbiters of truth—like the Post’s Glenn Kessler—can't ma...

Sep 5, 2012 / Column / Eric Alterman

Behind the GOP’s Diversity Display Behind the GOP’s Diversity Display

“Diversity” today marks a shift from equal opportunities to photo opportunities; institutions look different but they operate in exactly the same way.

Sep 5, 2012 / Column / Gary Younge

Moms Discriminated Against at the DNC? Moms Discriminated Against at the DNC?

While Democrats are effusing over the Mom-in-Chief, it’s worth noting that a branch of NOW is currently petitioning Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to stop discrimi...

Sep 5, 2012 / Laura Flanders

Romney, Obama and ‘Capitalism’ in Israel Romney, Obama and ‘Capitalism’ in Israel

Talk about a tempest in a chicken-soup pot!

Sep 5, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss

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