As France Lifts Municipal Burkini Ban, Let’s Ask Why We Should Care What Other...
Islamophobic conservatives express outrage that Western progressives support Muslim rights that the conservatives want to curb. But progressives also support Sikhs, Haredi Jews and others who want to be different, as long as their being different doesn’t harm anyone.
Kids Suing Government Over Climate Change May Get a Trial
A group of young people pressing a novel legal strategy get another day in federal court.
The ‘Hidden Figures’ Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows
A new movie reminds us of past racial injustice as a new administration tries to roll back the clock.
The art of the Trumpaclysm
How the U.S. invaded, occupied, and remade itself.
Orwell, radioactive pigs, Godzilla, and, of course, Trump
George Orwell is not the only journalist to turn iconoclastic prophet.
The Money Primary
Running for America's highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.
Debate Mendacity Even Shocks Conservatives
Republican presidential candidates seem free to bend, twist and shred the truth at will—for instance, take the free-for-all CNBC debate. They all got away with prevaricating about themselves, their policies and their opponents.
The Age of Trump, the end of what?
Which hunt? Who knows which witch?
Vladimir Putin: Global gunman
Why are we concerned about humiliating mass murderers?
Kindergarten quiz time! Want a violence-prone, tantrum-throwing, fundamentalist minority in charge – or incremental,...
Top to bottom, Rethuglicans are on parade, leaving neither the vicious means nor the unholy ends to the imagination.