Opinion

Israel, Afghanistan and Drones: What the Democrats Didn’t Talk About Last Night

The Democrats' foreign policy discussions often took a hawkish line and avoided many of the most important issues that a future president will face.

Branko Marcetic

Why It Matters That Bernie Sanders Forced a Debate About Capitalism on National TV

Facing rampant inequality and poverty, a substantive debate on socialism versus capitalism is exactly what the United States needs right now.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Anderson Cooper’s Claim About Bernie Sanders’ Soviet Union Honeymoon Was Redbaiting and Deceptive

Cooper's implications were dishonest.

Timothy Lange

Despite Bernie Sanders’ Prodding Last Night, Hillary Clinton Stuck to Her Neoliberal Talking Points

Hillary Clinton's performance in last night's debate shows her to be every inch the neoliberal "true believer" she's a built a reputation as being.

Jesse Myerson

Robert Reich: Why Hillary Clinton Is Wrong for Refusing To Resurrect Glass-Steagall

Resurrection of the Glass-Steagall Act has become an important policy difference between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Robert Reich

14 Years After the U.S. Invasion, the War in Afghanistan is Impossible to Justify

Afghanistan is yet another bloody quagmire for the United States that has helped create more rather than less dangerous enemies.

Marc Daalder

The (R)evolutionary Vision and Contagious Optimism of Grace Lee Boggs

Boggs' love for humanity ran strong and deep, serving as a generative force for creating change.

Barbara Ransby

The New York Times Has Repeatedly Downplayed the Success of the BDS Movement Against Israel

The BDS movement has been racking up a series of successes lately and has caught the attention of many in Israel. But you wouldn't know it from reading the Times.

Gunar Olsen

Whose Business Is Anyone’s Gender, Anyway?

Journalists, it's time we adopted the gender-neutral pronoun "they."

Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin

Ralph Nader: The Incredible Vacuousness of the Race for the Republican Presidential Nomination

The mainstream media is complicit in the circusization of the Republican debates.

Ralph Nader

Bernie Sanders’ Refusal To Attack Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Principled—It’s Political Genius

The democratic socialist is taking a stand by running a clean campaign, and it’s already making a big impact on the race for president.

Marc Daalder

The 1 Percent’s Houses Are Getting Bigger and Swankier While Average Americans Struggle To Make Rent

For a view of the inefficiencies of the free market, there's no clearer view than the U.S. housing market, where there are as many as 29 empty homes for every homeless person.

Rob Larson

Forget Iran—It’s the U.S. Corporate-Nuclear Complex We Should be Worried About

Although Iran gets all the headlines, U.S. nuclear weapons are the real threat.

Richard Krushnic and Jonathan Alan King

NY Times Celebrates American Navy Pilots’ Dramatic Missions While Ignoring Iraqi Civilian Deaths

Reporter Helen Cooper won't let innocent civilian deaths get in the way of a "good" story.

Jim Naureckas

Let’s Be Real: Iran Has No Intention of Attacking Israel, with Nuclear Weapons or Anything Else

Despite doomsday warnings from American politicians, Iran has no serious intentions of attacking Israel or the West.

Marc Daalder

Why Radical Leftists Need To Stop Worrying and Back Bernie Sanders

Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.

William Kaufman

Should General Electric Clean Up its Pollution in New York? Gov. Andrew Cuomo Isn’t Sure.

The New York governor is being pressured to make General Electric finish its cleanup of the Hudson River.

David Sirota

The New Yorker Wants You To Be Afraid of the Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn—Very Afraid

"Quantitative easing" isn't a far-left fantasy—it's mainstream economics.

Dean Baker