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Dror Ladin After Years of Slammed Doors, Torture Survivors Finally End Impunity Streak As an attorney representing victims of torture, one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen is the sheer determination of survivors standing up and publicly confronting those responsible. That’... Read more |
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Les Leopold Playing A Symphony On That White Skin Trump's endorsement of white supremacist elements has far reaching and dangerous implications Read more |
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Sarah Anderson The Alt-Right and the 1% When President Trump equated white supremacists with anti-racism protesters, he was sending a message to the thugs in the streets and to some in executive suites Read more |
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Dana Drugmand Charlottesville, Oppression, and the Imperative of System Change We are living in deeply troubling times. Our democracy is eroding, wealth and income inequality has skyrocketed, and tragedy and violence seemingly erupt daily around the world. The recent events in... Read more |
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John Atcheson The Road Back from the Brink These are perilous times. But from peril can come promise. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Pardon Me! High Crimes and Demeanors in the Age of Trump Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and mainstream pundit in America assured us that we were the planet’s... Read more |
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Robert Jensen When Will the United States Transcend White Supremacy? The unfortunate, but likely answer: Never. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Why Does North Korea Hate Us? “The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless . . .” Read more |
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Ethan Goffman Meet the New NAFTA, Same as the Old NAFTA? During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for protection of jobs. Did he mean tariffs or other measures to keep employment in the United States? Or was he talking about stronger labor... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Civil War Trump’s unwillingness to denounce the white supremacists who came to Charlottesville last weekend bent on violence has been part of his political strategy from the start. Remember, weeks after he... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Centrist Pundits Paved Way for Trump’s ‘Alt-Left’ False Equivalence President Donald Trump sparked outrage Tuesday afternoon after he equated Nazis and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. To do so, he referred to the anti-racist activists as the “alt-left,” with... Read more |
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Anthony D. Romero Equality, Justice and the First Amendment For all people of good will—regardless of party affiliation, race, creed, or color—the events that took place this weekend in Charlottesville were sickening and deeply disturbing. Several clear... Read more |
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Michael Winship Waiting for a Grown-Up in the White House Donald Trump is turning the presidency into a day care center for his troubled inner child. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Racists Look Emboldened. They're Actually Terrified. They act from the cowardly fear that valuing someone else's life devalues their own. Read more |
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Christian Christensen Trump Keeps His Promise - And Delivers Hate Those who voted for Trump got exactly what they voted for. There was no false advertising. There was no deception. Read more |
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Neal Gabler The Testosterone-Fueled Presidency Just look at what can happen when Trump feels his "masculinity" is threatened Read more |
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Peter Certo White Supremacy Carries More Than a Tiki Torch Republicans are condemning Trump’s coddling of white supremacists. Can they speak out against racist laws, too? Read more |
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Anne Kingston This Is The Real Donald Trump, Loud And Clear Anne Kingston: Trump’s messaging is now so brazen that dog whistles are redundant. The signals are increasingly plain for all to see. Read more |
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Randall Amster Cuckoo D'État: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum We have a president who can’t even muster a lucid response to the most obvious forms of abject hatred Read more |
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Mark Devries New Drone Footage Exposes the Scale of Factory Animal Farming Like Never Before The animal agriculture industry spends millions on deceptive advertising to persuade consumers that farmed animals roam freely on bucolic pastures. But I’ve been piloting drones over animal... Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Maybe Next Time Stick to the Notes President* Trump lost his shit so badly he may never get it back. Read more |
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Alex Formuzis Scott Pruitt Is Turning the EPA into the KGB Scott Pruitt, polluters’ puppet and head of the Environmental Protection Agency, knows most Americans are strongly opposed to his anti-public health, anti-kids, anti-science agenda. That’s why he... Read more |
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Libero Della Piana Charlottesville Is An Urgent Call for Voting Rights Saturday night I arrived in Virginia as the conscience of the country and world turned toward the state. Earlier that day, hundreds of organized white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right”... Read more |
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Adele M. Stan White Supremacist Chaos In Charlottesville Is Just the Beginning I was in Charlottesville when the Nazis moved in. Here's what to expect if they come to your town. Read more |
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Robert Reich Making America Hate Again Two days late, Donald Trump has finally condemned violent white supremacists. He was pushed into it by a storm of outrage at his initial failure to do so in the wake of deadly violence to... Read more |
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Ralph Nader The 16 Year War in Afghanistan – Headlines Tell the Story Since 2001 the US has been at War in Afghanistan – the longest war in US history. Headlines concisely tell the story of this cruel boomeranging quagmire of human violence and misery. Below are some... Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon When All the World’s a War... And All the Men and Women Merely Soldiers Read more |
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Mark Rumold In J20 Investigation, DOJ Overreaches Again. And Gets Taken to Court Again We’ve already written about problems with the government’s investigation into the J20 protests—a series of demonstrations on January 20, the day of President Trump’s inauguration—which resulted in... Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Trump’s Arpaio Pardon? Instead, Arizona’s Confederate Monuments Must Come Down Any pardon of disgraced and criminally convicted former Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Donald Trump would be a de facto monument to “the most egregious racial profiling in the United States” and “chronic... Read more |
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Alexandra Tempus Progressives Are Adapting to the Activist Surge When activist newcomers helping plan the New York Tax March—which took place April 15 this year to pressure Donald Trump to release his tax returns—suggested including a giant inflatable chicken in... Read more |
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Guillermo Herrera Americans — Especially Women — Benefit Hugely from Social Security Today is Social Security’s 82nd birthday. We’ve updated our backgrounder on Social Security’s significant impact and a related analysis of its benefits. In June 2017, over 60 million people collected... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Trump Won’t Say It, But We Will: White Terror in Charlottesville Her name was Heather Heyer . She was marching for justice in Charlottesville when she was killed by a white racist. Say her name. His name was Timothy Caughman . He was walking down the street in New... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Petition To Censure Trump Gains Momentum In less than two weeks, a petition calling for Congress to censure President Donald Trump for misconduct and misdeeds has attracted more than 14,500 signatures. One of the initiators of the petition... Read more |
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Gregg Bloche Progressives, Now's Your Chance To Secure Healthcare For All Decades from now, the collapse of Republicans’ campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be seen as the moment America finalized its commitment to healthcare for all. Democrats shouldn’t... Read more |
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Michael Winship Charlottesville Goddam In a time of crisis the president is supposed to bring us together. Donald Trump did not. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis’ Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville Each time horrific political violence is perpetrated that is deemed to be terrorism, a search is immediately conducted for culprits to blame other than those who actually perpetrated the violence or... Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries Charlottesville Was Not a "Protest Turned Violent," It Was a Planned Race Riot Isn’t it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are? Read more |
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John Atcheson Why Trump Won: Pundits and Press Still Missing the Big Picture CNN’s Fareek Zakaria’s recent explanation for why Trump won has been getting a lot of play. It’s similar to explanations most of the other pundits have been pushing for some time now, and it sets up... Read more |
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Christine Emba There Are Only Two Sides to Charlottesville. Trump Is on the Wrong One. As the leader of our nation, our president should know that some conflicts don’t deserve forbearance or false equivalence Read more |
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Adam Johnson For Media, Driving Into a Crowd of Protesters Is a ‘Clash’ The Washington Post , Boston Globe , AOL News , The Hill , BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as “clashes.” The BBC ’s breaking news tweet, “One... Read more |
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Peniel Joseph A Presidency Built on Racial Divisions Racial violence that gripped Charlottesville, Va., causing the governor to declare a state of emergency represents a case of what Malcolm X famously characterized as “chickens coming home to roost.”... Read more |
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Steven Singer Dear White Supremacists: There Will Be No Race War This one goes out to all the white boys. No. Not ALL the white boys. Just the ones who think being “white” and being a “boy” means the world owes them something. "There will be no race war... Not now... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Kim Jong-Trump There are no military solutions to this crisis. Zero. None. Read more |
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Jeremy Scahill The Battle for Venezuela and Its Oil Despire the public battles between the New York Times and President Donald Trump, the two seem to be on a similar page about the unfolding crisis in Venezuela. Last week, the administration announced... Read more |
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Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Let Me Remind You Who Jeff Sessions Is For the past several weeks, media coverage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a sympathetic turn. In article after article, the “beleaguered” Sessions is described as a victim of bullying ,... Read more |
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Ann Starrs The Vital Importance of Sexual Education Why young people deserve comprehensive, nonjudgmental and empowering sexuality education Read more |
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Chuck Collins What Would It Really Take to Reverse Inequality? Unleashing the transformative potential of an equitable economy Read more |
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Robert Weissman Despite White House Chaos, Trump Delivers Favors for Corporate America The Trump administration may be dazed and confused about many things, but not about its corporate agenda . From Scaramucci to Spicer, from Kelly to Kushner, one thing doesn’t change at Donald Trump’s... Read more |
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Michael Winship The Grand Old Party’s Over. Make Way for the Trump Party. You’ve probably heard the story. It’s said that in ancient Rome, the emperor had a member of the Praetorian Guard who, amid all the pomp and all the accolades, would stand behind him and murmur: “... Read more |
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Norman Eisen, Fred Wertheimer Firing Mueller Would Be a Catastrophic Mistake On October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon executed the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" in which Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired and the special prosecutor's office was shut... Read more |
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Joseph Gerson No Fire, No Fury: Common Security Diplomacy to Resolve US-North Korean Crisis We face a situation with dangerous parallels to the period leading to the Guns of August in 1914 Read more |
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Neve Gordon Does It Really Matter If Netanyahu Ends Up Behind Bars? "Background noise" was the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterised the decision of his former chief of staff, Ari Harow, to become a state witness. The following day, the prime... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Betsy DeVos’s ‘School Choice’ Looks More Like Crony Capitalism U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says she supports “great public schools,” but her actions continue to show her hypocrisy on that subject. Her recent trip to Michigan, her home state, offers... Read more |
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Dean Baker Do Corporate Media Need to Lie to Promote Trade Deals? I understand people can have reasonable differences of opinion on trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but why is it that the proponents have to insist, with zero evidence, that not... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Don't Privatize the Afghan War—Just End It Erik Prince, the notorious founder of the military contracting company formerly known as Blackwater, has been making the rounds of media outlets to promote his idea for privatizing the U.S. war in... Read more |
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Jerry Lembcke Trump vs. Blumenthal and the Ironies of Opportunism President Donald Trump has the fake veteran story all wrong. The President attacked Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal as a “phony Vietnam con artist” after the Senator expressed support for... Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman A "No Nukes" Nation to Trump: Resign! In the shadow of Santa Monica’s legendary “Chain Reaction” monument, a clear message was sent to the unelected interloper in the White House: RESIGN!!! Wednesday was the 72nd anniversary of the... Read more |
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Rethinking Schools Editorial Little Kids, Big Fears: How to Talk About Nuclear War and Donald Trump with 2nd-Graders We aren't protecting children by not engaging them in conversation around tough topics Read more |
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Jean Ross We Still Have A Lot of Work To Do On Healthcare With liberals across the land breathing a huge sigh of relief after the abrupt collapse of the Senate scheme to repeal and somewhat replace the Affordable Care Act, all is good again with healthcare... Read more |
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Judy Dasovich We Should Support Medicare for All Americans know we need affordable, accessible, quality health care. Our current system relies on private insurance which provides none of these things. Improved and expanded Medicare for all can give... Read more |
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Nick Turse Counting Coups: Can the Pentagon Win When Putsch Comes to Shove? A rare Pentagon "success" story Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Playing Nuclear "Chicken" With Our Lives What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders, in an escalating confrontation with each other, threaten one another―and the world―with nuclear war? That... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Terrorism for Profit Donald Trump stands cluelessly at the edge of history, exemplifying everything wrong with the past, oh, 10,000 years or so. The necessity for fundamental change in humanity’s global organization is... Read more |
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James Esseks How Could You Represent Someone Like Milo Yiannopoulos? How free speech protections fuel civil rights movements Read more |
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Peter Dreier Dear God: I Have a Small Favor To Ask Dear God: I’m usually not one for prayer, but I have a special favor to ask. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at First Baptist Dallas megachurch, released a statement today saying that President Trump... Read more |
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Brienne Kordis Saudis Are Killing Their Own People, With Help from the US and Canada Government forces have been terrorizing the people of Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province of al-Qatif for months. On May 10th , the Saudis launched a military campaign to tear down Al-... Read more |
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Isaiah Poole On the Road From Protest to Power: A Rising Tide The millions who gathered in Washington and around the country for the historic Women’s March , one day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, made an indisputable statement: Trump may have won the... Read more |
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Brenda Ekwurzel US Abandons Global Science Leadership, Zeroes Out IPCC Funding In stark contrast to the leadership role the US has historically contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the enacted 2017 U.S. Budget zeroes out funding for the... Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann Don’t Let the White House’s Dysfunction Distract You From the Things Trump Is Getting Done While the media and much of the public have been consumed with the spectacle of dysfunction and failure in the Trump White House—The Mooch, the Russia investigation, and the demise of the Republican... Read more |
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Rachel Krantz An Inconvenient Sequel Doesn't Talk About Animal Agriculture—and That's Absurd When I spotted fellow vegan James Cromwell in line for food at an advance screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power , I couldn’t help but try to talk to him. Recently arrested at a protest... Read more |
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Jim Hightower Wall Street Thieves Find New Ways to Steal From Us The self-described "Geniuses of Wall Street" are being stupid. Again. Read more |
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Mark Schuller Chronicling a Forgotten Disaster: Hurricane Matthew, Ten Months On I just returned from my summer research in Haiti, traveling through the South and Grand-Anse provinces, which were devastated by Hurricane Matthew overnight on October 4, 2016, barely ten months ago... Read more |
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Juan Cole “Fire & Fury” or “Shock and Awe”: It Is Always the Start of a Quagmire If we weren’t talking about two nuclear-armed states with unhinged leaders, the war of words between the US and North Korea would be hilarious. Trump’s threat Tuesday that “North Korea best not make... Read more |
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CJ Werleman The Silence of Trump: How US President Gives Tacit Support to Terror Against Muslims The White House is sending a clear message: it will not condemn violence against Muslim Americans Read more |
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Susan Southard 72 Years After Bombing of Nagasaki, There Are 15,000 Nuclear Weapons in the World Today is the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, a five-ton plutonium bomb exploded a third of a mile above the city. Its blast winds tore through the city... Read more |
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Richard Falk End of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will... Read more |
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John Atlas, Peter Dreier Trump’s War on Voters Has a Long History: We Need a Grassroots Voting-Rights Movement to Fight Back Trump and his minions have ramped up the attack, but the "voter fraud" myth goes back to the GOP's attack on ACORN Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump Is (Not) on Vacation, But the Nightmare Continues With Donald Trump away vacationing at one of his golf resorts, the rest of us may have a chance to relax. But in truth it’s more like a short break in a continuing nightmare. Just enough time to turn... Read more |
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Norman Stockwell Trump Team Sets the Stage for Prosecutions of the Press At a press briefing last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned darkly of “the dramatic growth in the number of unauthorized disclosures of classified national security information in the past... Read more |
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Paul Street The United States and the Crucifixion of Yemen The United States has killed, maimed, displaced and otherwise harmed an astonishing number of people in its 241-year record of murder and mayhem —including more than 20 million killed in 37 nations... Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses Read more |
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Michael Lighty Liberals Strike Back... Against Single Payer In the name of political reality, some liberal pundits, politicians and policy wonks are scolding progressives to give up on Medicare for All. They are dead wrong. Read more |
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Juan Cole Scientists Leak Study on Global Heating Impact Before Trump can Suppress it A draft report on the current impact of global heating on the United States, produced by 13 Federal agencies, has been leaked to the New York Times . The scientists who leaked it are afraid that the... Read more |
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Bill Moyers What Don’t You Know About the Trump/Russia Connection? Bill Moyers talks to Steven Harper, author of our new interactive feature, about what he's learned researching the connections between Trump, his team and Russia going back nearly four decades. Read more |
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Annika Nilsson, Miyase Christensen, Tom Buurman The Thawing Arctic Beyond Flags Something remarkable happened in the Arctic ten years ago. On August 2 2007, two small submarines planted a titanium Russian flag on the seabed of the North Pole. First met with ridicule and scorn,... Read more |
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Faiza Patel, Rudy Mehrbani What Trump Doesn't Get: Sessions Recusal from Russia Probe was Mandatory Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from the Justice Department's Trump-Russia investigation is necessary to ensure it proceeds with neither real nor perceived political interference. Read more |
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Mark LeVine What is Behind Israel's Attempt to Ban Al Jazeera? Does Netanyahu need a smoke screen for his corruption scandal or is there a more sinister reason for banning Al Jazeera? Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Is Back-to-School More Expensive This Year? Yes, and Here’s Why Parents getting their children ready to go back to school this fall may be dismayed at the long and pricey school supply lists they’re getting from their local schools. They can rest assured their... Read more |
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John Atcheson The Great Leap Backwards: Trump's Blueprint To Make America Not Great The Trump administration is doubling down on oil, gas, and coal at a time when the rest of the world is committing to getting off the stuff and investing in renewable energy. Renewable energy, by the... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Even More Evidence the US Is a Kleptocracy, Not a Meritocracy Data shows inequality is spiraling out of control Read more |
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Linda McQuaig NAFTA Needs an Overhaul to Improve Workers’ Rights NAFTA has been key to the transformation of Canada over the last two decades, enabling corporations to become ever more dominant economically and politically, while rendering our labor force increasingly vulnerable and insecure. Read more |
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David Swanson You Cannot Begin a Crime in Good Faith This morning we handed out flyers on Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul. We encountered very few who knew why it is called that. Frank Kellogg was a hero in the sense that a whistleblower is a hero. He... Read more |
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John Nichols Scott Walker's Crony Capitalism If Scott Walker were a fiscal conservative, he would be ashamed of himself. But Walker is not a fiscal conservative. And he has no shame, as Wisconsinites who know how their tax dollars are spent are... Read more |
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Juan Cole UN Report: Muslim Youth Fighting in Syria Mostly Not Motivated By Islam Lizzie Dearden at The Independent reviews a new report by the United Nations Office of Counter-terrorism. Some 25,000 young men are said to have made their way from Europe to fight the regime in... Read more |
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Robert Dodge Hope On This Hiroshima Day Seventy-two years after the U.S dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki, there is hope that we will finally see the abolition of these most deadly weapons of mass... Read more |
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Anusha Ravi I Grew Up in Tom Price’s District. The Sex Ed He Promotes Is Dangerous. Last month, the Trump administration silently slashed $213.6 million from at least 81 institutions working on teen pregnancy prevention. The cuts hit a wide variety of programs: the Choctaw Nation’s... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Facing Crisis of Legitimacy, Trump Administration Pledges to Intensify War on Leaks President Donald Trump's administration is in the throes of a crisis of legitimacy and leadership, with federal government employees concerned and unwilling to stay quiet about chaos, incompetence,... Read more |
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Eric Margolis Time to End the Lost Afghan War Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. The president has... Read more |
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Tom Hastings Are We Egypt? When the world watched Egyptians bravely gather en masse in Tahrir Square in Cairo in January 2011 to Arab Spring Hosni Mubarak out of office, we were mightily impressed and most of us cheered the... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Trump Will Win In 2020 Liberals have been writing off Donald Trump's presidency since before it began. But the way it’s going, he’s heading for reelection. Read more |