Opinion

The 5 Worst Excuses for Hillary Clinton’s Vote To Invade Iraq

Clinton supporters want Democratic voters to forgive their candidate's support for the most disastrous foreign policy decision in decades. They shouldn't.

Stephen Zunes

LGBTQ Protests Against Israel Are About Justice, Not Anti-Semitism

Israel uses a reductive version of “gay rights” to market itself with a positive, welcoming image—despite its egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Jimmy Pasch

Joan Walsh to Young Bernie Sanders Supporters: Get Off My Lawn

Walsh's anger sounds like a diatribe against a rude, “barely shaving,” teen for not properly respecting his elder.

Matt Bruenig

Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Bernie Sanders—and About How Social Change Works

Bernie isn't some kind of wild-eyed radical. He's actually the most pragmatic candidate in the race.

Gabriel Hetland

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: The Man Who Drowned Democracy in ‘Citizens United’

What a legacy.

Joe Conason

The Bizarre Experience of Agreeing with Trump

It's no coincidence that Trump, the candidate least in need of money or media attention, is the most outspoken against war.

Leonard C. Goodman

How Donald Trump Hopes to John Wayne His Way Into the White House

Why the American Hero trope is so dangerous

Susan J. Douglas

Bernie Sanders’ Insurgent Campaign Marks the End of Don’t-Rock-the-Corporate-Boat Liberalism

The grassroots is taking charge of Sanders' campaign—and they're not waiting around for the establishment.

Jim Hightower

The Newspaper That Transformed Black America—And The Course of History

How an ambitious migrant came to Chicago and changed history with the power of journalism

Salim Muwakkil

Bernie Sanders’ Election Would Mean the End of ‘Too Big To Fail’ on Wall Street

Why have the power players of the Democratic Party allowed this to continue?

Larry Cohen

Expanding Housing Assistance to the Poor and Middle Class Is Actually Easier Than You Think

We'd just have to take away subsidies to people who are rich enough not to need them.

Daniel Hertz

Raise a Glass to These Progressive Victories in 2015

From the death of the Keystone XL pipeline to Fight for 15 victories, progressives made have major strides this year--thanks to groundwork laid over the past decade.

James Thindwa

The New Star Wars Film is the Same Old Hackneyed Nonsense—Please Don’t Kill Me for Saying It

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens racking up more and more acclaim, have audiences forgotten the narrative complexity and moral ambiguity cinema is capable of?

Eileen Jones

The Paris Climate Agreement Sets Ambitious Goals, But Countries Won’t Achieve Them—Without Us

COP21's heart may have been in the right place, but by the numbers, the sum is still climate catastrophe.

Tom Ladendorf

Why Zizek’s Critics are Wrong—and Where They Could Have Gotten it Right

Zizek's critique of the refugee crisis is more sophisticated than his critics are willing to admit—but he, too, missed something big.

Jamil Khader

Bernie Is Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well

For some, the Paris attacks were a windfall

Leonard C. Goodman

The Right’s Response to the Paris Attacks Is Shameful and Opportunistic

Trump et al. should take a lesson from a 4-year-old boy in Paris.

Susan J. Douglas

Why We Can’t Bridge the Gulf Between Donald Trump Supporters and the Rest of Us

When one side believes poor people, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people and others deserve rights and the other doesn't, how can we possibly bridge the gap?

Waleed Shahid