October 27, 2014In recent years, the phrase “American exceptionalism,” at once resonant and ambiguous, has stolen into popular usage in electoral politics with a profligacy that is hard to account for.
October 23, 2014A court dominated by Bush appointees has issued some extreme opinions on abortion, voter ID and the death penalty.
October 21, 2014An interview with Laura Poitras on her latest film, Citizenfour, a journey to the revelation of government mass surveillance and the Snowden era.
October 10, 2014The president slams cuts to military spending, which could be a signal of further escalation in the Middle East.
October 9, 2014Amid continual headlines of terror plots, we have been relegated to the role of so many frightened spectators when it comes to our government and its actions.
October 8, 2014In the crisis of World War II, the nation made the political choices that created the robust egalitarian economy of the next 30 years. How can we recreate it now?
October 8, 2014Both right and left too often ignore, if not deny, that Americans are radicals at heart.
October 7, 2014Deportations reached another record high last year and seem to be the Democratic response to right-wing dog whistling around Latino immigrants.
October 2, 2014"I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war."
October 1, 2014Having a labyrinth of 17 overlapping, paramilitarized, deeply secretive agencies doing versions of the same thing is the definition of counterproductive madness.
