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Economics

A New Report Shows the White House Is Terrified of Socialism

The Council of Economic Advisers’ investigation into the “opportunity costs of socialism” reads like a nervous undergraduate's term paper.  

Kate Aronoff
State and Local Elections

It’s Getting Lonely on Scott Walker’s Sinking Ship

The onetime Republican golden boy has never recovered from his failed presidential run.

John Nichols
Labor

Why Are Some People Paying to Work?

The guestworker visa program is fueling an international industry of recruiter fees and fraud.

Michelle Chen
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Politics

The Austerity Hawks Are Coming for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid

Mitch McConnell just revealed the scheme: cut taxes for the billionaires class, create deficits, and then shred the social safety net.

John Nichols

President Body Slam Needs to Be Checked and Balanced

America needs a Congress that will challenge this president when he attacks freedom of the press, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.

John Nichols

J.D. Scholten Bets the Farm on Beating Steve King

Just weeks from the midterms, an Iowa hometown hero is gaining ground on one of Congress’s most toxic incumbents.

Rebecca Zweig

world

Mexico’s Discount-Health-Care Problem

Affordable clinic–pharmacies have vastly expanded health-care access for Mexicans. They’ve also bred a dangerous attitude towards prescription drugs.

Julie Morse

In the Valley of Death: Somaliland’s Forgotten Genocide

Thirty years ago, the US-backed Somali government slaughtered an estimated 200,000 people. Now survivors want US help uncovering the crimes.

Ismail Einashe and Matt Kennard

Russia’s Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993

Twenty-five years ago, a nascent democracy died.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Culture

Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism

A new biography captures how the Minnesota senator and vice president was poised to be liberalism’s conscience but instead played a role in its downfall.

Michael Kazin

Jason Lutes’s ‘Berlin’ Sets a New Standard for Graphic Novels

This expansive work follows a cast of characters caught up in the massive upheavals happening in Germany between the world wars. 

David Hajdu

Ben Rhodes and the Crisis of Liberal Foreign Policy

Obama and his speechwriter and national-security adviser set out to break from the foreign-policy establishment; instead, they found themselves absorbed by it.

David Klion

Watch and Listen

October 18, 2018

Watch: These Tenants Are Leading the Largest Rent Strike in LA History

Residents of three buildings in Central Los Angeles are refusing to pay rent until their landlord agrees to fair rent increases.

August 20, 2018

Watch: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons

What we can learn from one of the great organizers in American history.

November 15, 2016

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