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Ted Cruz Is an Anti-Muslim Bigot, Too

The GOP has an anti-Muslim hate problem: Ted Cruz’s foreign-policy team is anchored by America’s biggest Islamophobe.

Ali Gharib

Class

How Trump Dog-Whistles the Business Establishment

He cleverly woos the GOP base on issues like trade, but this working-class hero is actually a willing agent of the 1 percenters.

William Greider
Armed Conflicts

The Syrian Who Wanted the Revolution

On the fifth anniversary of the revolt, the film collective Abounaddara gives a voice, a face, and a humanity to one of the country’s bludgeoned survivors.

Moustafa Bayoumi
World

There Is No Military Solution for Syria

Longtime UN diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi talks about how to end the tragedy, and when you really need diplomacy.

Barbara Crossette
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Watch: The Syrian Who Wanted the Revolution, Part Two: The Welcome

On the fifth anniversary of the revolt, the film collective Abounaddara gives a voice, a face, and a humanity to one of the country’s bludgeoned survivors.

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Listen: There Goes the Neighborhood: Brooklyn, We Go Hard

In Episode 2, meet the residents of East New York, who are determined to protect their community from the waves of gentrification crashing over the rest of Brooklyn.

March 16, 2016

Watch: How to Manufacture a Real Estate Boom

Why We Stay: A film by A film by Crystal Kayiza, Pete Quandt and Leroy Farrell

March 16, 2016

Election 2016

The Fight for Bernie’s Political Revolution Is Not Over

With each primary victory—and each close call—Sanders has shown us our own strength. 

D.D. Guttenplan

It Is Still Donald Trump’s Party

Rubio quits. Kasich wins Ohio. Cruz holds on. But it is still Donald’s night.

Joan Walsh

How Trump Dog-Whistles the Business Establishment

He cleverly woos the GOP base on issues like trade, but this working-class hero is actually a willing agent of the 1 percenters.

William Greider
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Protest & Trump

Protest Donald Trump and What He Stands for Everywhere

Violence—actual, desired, and imagined—has been at the spasmodic heart of American politics since September 11, and the GOP front-runner knows it.

Bruce Shapiro

How Far Should Anti-Trump Protesters Take It?

The students at Chicago were brave and organized. But there’s also a danger to escalating confrontations.

D.D. Guttenplan

Trump’s Storm Troopers and the Possibility of American Fascism

He may not be Hitler or Mussolini, but his campaign should have voters worried for the future.

Bob Dreyfuss

Books & the Arts

Stranger Than ‘House Of Cards’

Given the absurdities of the current political season, it is worth asking why the return of the Netflix drama was so highly anticipated.

K. Leander Williams

A Critic’s Job of Work

I don’t see my job as making or breaking an artist. I have other responsibilities toward art.

Barry Schwabsky

A European Union?

Stefan Zweig’s essays in Messages From a Lost World are a product of his displacement and a sharp reminder to citizens about the agony in the present age of the refugee.

Gavin Jacobson

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Now That We Have a Supreme Court Nominee, Tell GOP Senators to Do Their Job

Senate Republicans are still refusing to even consider Merrick Garland, President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court.

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