Opinion
In Defense of the Baby Boomers
Twentysomethings are indeed getting screwed, but not by an entire, somehow monolithic generation of selfish, greedy, resource-guzzling hogs.
Susan J. Douglas
Legislate First, Ask Questions Never
We all must share responsibility for the ignorance of our leaders.
Leonard C. Goodman
Ryan Shrugged
Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan can't shake his Randian roots.
Chris Lehmann
Bain’s Birth by Death Squads
Romney scrutinized over investments from Salvadoran families that ran a corrupt government, 12 years of murderous civil war and death squads.
Terry J. Allen
Zadie Smith’s London
More than anyone else at the moment writing fiction about London, Zadie Smith knows about race and class.
Jane Miller
Schooling in a Spot of Bother
The English education system isn't leaving room for students to flourish.
Jane Miller
GOP Land Grab
To Romney and others in his party, all public assets look ripe for privatization
Joel Bleifuss
The End of Facebook?
With the emergence of apps and a transition away from websites, Facebook may fall by the wayside
Kenneth Rapoza
GOP Time Travelers and Other Hucksters
The misguided semantics paving the way to November's election
Chris Lehmann
The Next Hiroshima
August 6 provides a critical moment to reflect not only on the terrible events of that day, but also on current nuclear threats.
Noam Chomsky
Making Obama’s Kill List
The public should have more information on the drone program and its targets.
Leonard C. Goodman
A Slip of the Tongue?
Bill Clinton's praise for Romney's business career signals what's to come in 2016.
Joel Bleifuss
The Deadly Addiction to Cheap Meat
How the overuse of antibiotics on livestock is making us sick.
Terry J. Allen
The Meaning of Heroism
Too often, the Right uses the "hero" label to stifle dissent.
Lindsay Beyerstein
The War on Old Folks
Susan J. Douglas
The War on Whistleblowers
The Obama administration's dubiously legal whistleblower crackdown is a genuine threat to democracy.
David Sirota
Shiny Objects Are People, Too
Why the Romney campaign's distinction between "economic" and "social" issues is false.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Somebody Else’s Atrocities
Opposing the International Olympic Committee’s newly formed partnership with Dow Chemical, dissenters illuminate a history of human rights oversights.
Noam Chomsky
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