Politics

Trump has said he'd be willing to give Palin a position in his cabinet.

“This is NOT a normal election cycle—and anyone who describes it using the shopworn rhetoric of ‘business as usual’ is almost certainly either living in a cave or acting as a corrupt tool of the ‘toxic Establishment.’”

Even in troubled Afghanistan, there are alternatives whose sum could potentially slice through this Gordian knot of a policy problem.

Juan Cole reviews the 10 GOP presidential candidates on one key issue—how likely they are to drag us into another war. Here are the individual answers to that pertinent question.

For a guy who brags interminably about his self-evident genius — getting rich by building colossal, ritzy stuff— Trump’s historic significance is getting fully established: he is a uniter of odd bedfellows (against his excesses) and already the demolisher-in-chief, whether of his party or campaign.

The progressive vision for 2020 is focused on the needs of average working people, on the strength of society rather than on winner-take-all individualism, on the cooperative efforts of underpaid people who have been forced out of the middle class.

"One problem with the idea that Democrats will benefit from a backlash to Roe being overturned is that the party leadership don’t seem to like the idea of there being a backlash to Roe being overturned."

How do two failed House years, after the wildly absurd kick-off, not wreck the right, not the left?

Are we Americans in the calm before a storm? What lies ahead for the people of this country?

The devastation of Raqqa was not covered in the English language press with the same vigor as the earlier battle for Aleppo.