The U.S. constitution was meant to be a work in progress
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal’s first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it’s still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.
India and the future of the planet
India’s economic and energy production model is not a threat to the world, but it is a threat to India itself, particularly its most marginalized people.
‘Just short of nuclear’: The latest financial sanctions will cripple Russia’s economy
The financial measures just announced against Russia are unprecedented for a country of its size.
How the U.S. started a cold war with Russia and left Ukraine to fight...
The United States and Russia must also finally assume the responsibility that comes with stockpiling over 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, and agree on a plan to start dismantling them, in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
In or out of power, with no positive agenda in sight, today’s rightwing flunks...
Still undetermined: the degree to which this Cult Leader will sabotage his own hijacked party’s chances in the mid-term.
Michigan initiatives clash on how to stop GOP’s election deniers
Competing state constitutional amendments go to different lengths to enshrine voting rights and target anti-voter legislation and court rulings.
When billionaires don’t pay taxes, people ‘lose faith in democracy’
The rich can live lavishly by employing a technique known as “Buy, Borrow, Die,” in which they buy or build assets, borrow against them and then avoid estate and gift taxes when they die.
Joe Manchin’s America
The resurgence of the culture-of-poverty debate.
Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: 7 questions answered
Alexis Karteron, director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers University Law School, gives her impressions of the nomination.
Bob Dylan and the Ukraine crisis
In recent days, media coverage of a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has taken on almost wistful qualities, as though the horsemen of the apocalypse are already out of the barn.









