How Corporations Profit Off Poverty
Policy journalist Anne Kim on how the welfare state is sucked dry by parasitic for-profit companies.
In a Functioning Democracy, Third Party Candidates Would Flourish
RFK Jr., Cornel West, Jill Stein, and others should be on ballots everywhere. “Defending democracy” rings hollow if elections are being rigged by both major parties.
A Short Play on the History of the United States Rejecting Puerto Rico Statehood
A 125-year-old dialogue between the United States and Puerto Rico on the island’s political future.
The Biden Excuse Machine Kicks Into Gear
There is a massive PR effort afoot to convince us to stay aboard a sinking ship.
The Campaign Against Jamaal Bowman Was Dirty Politics at its Worst
Whatever you think of the New York congressman, no election should look like this.
Biden Must Go
Joe Biden is simply not up to the task of taking on Donald Trump. Trump presents a major threat to the country, and Biden’s insistence on running is risking a catastrophe.
What Americans Don't Know About Iran
Historian John Ghazvinian on the long pattern of tragic lost opportunities for mutual understanding and diplomacy.
Before Smearing Chomsky, Try Reading Him
Noah Smith launches a facile attack on Noam Chomsky’s foreign policy scholarship that demonstrates some common failures of comprehension.