Politics

The Layer Ploy
The oil and gas industries are using the oldest corporate trick in the book: Hide the real agenda behind something popular.
David Sirota
Utah’s New Abortion Waiting Game
The state's new mandatory 72-hour waiting period for an abortion is condescending, costly and just as insidious as other restrictions.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Ron Paul’s Common Sense
He's wrong on many things, but when it comes to foreign policy and civil liberties, the GOP Congressman sounds the right notes.
Leonard C. Goodman
Mutually Assured Madness
British Ambassador Peter Jenkins on the alternatives to bombing Iran.
George Kenney
Trumpeting the Superpower Status Quo
President Obama's 'Defense Strategic Review' is old sauce in a new bottle—and the country's worse for it.
Gregory D. Foster
There Will Be Paranoia
As long as there are dispossessed white people, there will be conspiracies.
Steve Weinberg
What Rush Has Wrought
And why it's good news for feminism.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
The Second Coming of El Papa to Cuba
Pope Benedict XVI makes common cause with the Castro brothers.
Samuel Farber
How Do You Like It Now, Republicans?
Rush Limbaugh's depravity is the endpoint of conservatism's long journey into the heart of darkness.
Theo Anderson
A Broken Writ, a Kangaroo Court
Habeas corpus rights aren't intact in America. Just ask my Guantanamo detainee client.
Leonard C. Goodman
The Opposite of Snobbery
Rick Santorum thinks making college affordable for all is elitist. How else are Americans going to find good-paying jobs?
David Sirota
What Are Iran’s Intentions?
As tensions flare between Iran and the West, 120 nonaligned nations agree: the country has the right to enrich uranium.
Noam Chomsky
Oligarchy in the U.S.A.
The wealth defense industry protects the richest of the rich.
Jeffrey A. Winters
United Citizens vs. Citizens United
Two years after the infamous ruling, support builds for a constitutional amendment.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Argentina’s Pulp Fiction: Grupo Clarín and Freedom of the Press
A new law aiming to end a media monopoly is condemned by international news outlets.
Julie Turkewitz
Newt Gingrich’s Vintage Female Problem
He doesn't seem to like older women. They ought to take revenge at the ballot box.
Susan J. Douglas
The Iron Lady’s Mad Shadow
Margaret Thatcher's gut instincts influenced the next generation of politicians, from Blair to Bush.
Jane Miller
In Search of the Anti-Walker
An election to recall Wis. Gov. Scott Walker is now certain. His opponent is not.
Liz Novak
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