Opinion

The Time Has Come to Demolish Glen Canyon Dam

Amid a worsening drought in the Southwest, the controversial dam on the Colorado River is ceasing to serve its purpose. It’s time to tear it down.

Gary Wockner

The Power Is Still Out in New Orleans After Hurricane Ida. We Need Public Control of Our Energy Systems.

The damage from Hurricane Ida is the latest reminder that the climate change era requires public ownership of infrastructure.

Thomas M. Hanna

Empires Don't Last, But Their Scars Do

The Afghanistan withdrawal reteaches an old lesson about blowback to American intervention.

Joel Bleifuss

What Our Cultural Elites Can't Understand About Justice

The obvious solution to the "cancel culture" panic is the one that they just can't bear.

Hamilton Nolan

Progressives Now Hold the Cards in Congress

The budget standoff revealed a new power balance in the Democratic Party.

Nick Vachon

Billionaires Need to Get on Board With More Taxes or Expect the Pitchforks

The super-rich have made a killing off of the pandemic. It’s time to tax the hell out of them to pay for programs that serve the working class.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Sanctions Didn't Help Cubans, Iranians or Venezuelans. They Won't Help Afghans.

Economic punishment is taking a brutal toll during the pandemic.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Leaving Afghanistan Is the Right Thing To Do. We Never Should Have Been There.

Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.

Peter Certo

How Domestic Elites and Foreign Meddling Undermine Haitian Democracy

To understand the rise and fall of Jovenel Moïse, we must understand the forces that propped him up.

Sophonie Milande Joseph and François Pierre-Louis

Donald Trump Is Personally Responsible for Hundreds of Thousands of COVID Deaths

An honest look at what a single lunatic has caused.

Hamilton Nolan

We Can’t Let the Generals Who Lied About the Afghanistan War Define Its Legacy

The U.S. architects of the ruinous war are getting the last word on its “lessons.”

Sarah Lazare

The Infrastructure and Budget Bills Are a Watershed in U.S. Economic Doctrine

Deficit demagogy has (finally) become a fringe position in American politics—just look at the massive bills moving through Congress.

Max B. Sawicky

The Political Magic of the Democrats’ Infrastructure Plan

Biden and the Democrats have put forward proposals that would finally invest in public services that help humans flourish.

Rick Perlstein

Nina Turner’s Loss Holds Lessons for Future Left Candidates

A flood of dark money and establishment opposition helped sink Turner’s campaign—but progressive challengers can still win if they learn from the defeat while running on a redistributive platform.

Natalie Shure

Democrats Will Never Stop Triangulating Against Justice

Running against "defund the police" is both cowardly and wrong. Democratic leaders find that irresistible.

Hamilton Nolan

Dear Congress: Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill

Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.

Rural America In These Times

An Old Idea for a Guaranteed Income Is Back in Style

A new proposal for a negative income tax could eliminate poverty in the United States.

Max B. Sawicky

We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism

Stimulus packages are not enough. Only practices of deep democracy and shared ownership can end our cycle of economic disaster.

Stacey Sutton