Politics
It’s Not the Koran, It’s Us
The corporate media chorus willfully ignores that U.S. actions, not Islam, fuel jihadism.
Leonard C. Goodman
We Forgot To End Poverty
Poverty remains at record highs. Is that because welfare reform failed, or because it succeeded all too well?
Chris Rhomberg
The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Began in Panama
Twenty-five years ago this month, the U.S. invaded Panama. It became the blueprint for America's wars in the Middle East.
Greg Grandin
Texas: The Blue Frontier
Texas won't turn blue from the top down, but it may already be doing so from the ground up.
Theo Anderson
Whatever Obama’s Calculations, Socialism Is Still Alive and Well in Cuba
After 54 years of the most powerful country on earth with its boot on your collective neck, any relief is worthy of celebration.
Tom Hansen
Why Bernie Sanders Needs to Run for President—As an Independent
The corporate capture of both parties, explosion of energy in grassroots movements, and popular disgust with politics as usual make this the perfect moment for Sanders to run outside the Democratic Party.
David Goodner
Insanely Rich People Insisting They’re Just Average Joes: Only in America
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew can't wrap his head around the fact that he's really, really wealthy.
David Sirota
Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?
Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.
Danny Postel
Land of the Free and Home of the Enhanced Interrogators
We need a truth and reconciliation commission to deal with our torture problem.
Chris Lehmann
The Media’s 3 False Assumptions About American Torture
The Senate torture report could be the opening we need to make U.S. torture a thing of the past. Let’s not waste it.
Rebecca Gordon
We Can’t All Just Get Along
In our era of polarization, one party is guiltier than the other.
Susan J. Douglas
Slavoj Žižek: How the United States Rolls
It's lonely being the global policeman.
Slavoj Žižek
Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers
Elites prefer to commemorate dead soldiers, but perhaps we should remember the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace.
Adam Hochschild
When Police ‘Reforms’ Only Legitimize Police Abuses
The proposed policing reforms in response to the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner won't lessen police violence against communities of color. In fact, they may actually make it worse.
Michael Collins
In Iraq and Beyond, U.S. Foreign Policy is Based On Complete Fallacies
How can we ever hope for a sane foreign policy in the Middle East when America's bedrock assumptions about the region are completely wrong?
Andrew J. Bacevich
Should We Trust Him? The Mixed Results of Obama’s Past Immigrant Relief Measures
Past executive actions for undocumented immigrants under the president's administration haven't always delivered.
Yana Kunichoff
Journalists Aren’t Covering Local Elections. Our Democracy Is Suffering Because of It.
What if you held an election and nobody showed up to cover it? Americans now know the answer: elections with lots of paid ads but little journalism, context or objective facts.
David Sirota
Elizabeth Warren Needs to Run for President—Even If She Doesn’t Want To
She's the only one who can save the Democrats from themselves.
Ian Reifowitz
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