Voices
The Three Intersecting Reasons Ilhan Omar Gets Singled Out
The backlash against Ilhan Omar, a black Muslim woman, must be understood through the lens of what is known as the “afterlife of slavery.”
Politics
A New Congressional Caucus for Veterans Is Distancing Itself From Its Jeff Bezos Roots
The For Country caucus adopted a civility pledge identical to the one used by the Bezos-funded With Honor Super PAC.
Voices
The DCCC Is Trying to Put Me Out of Business — and I’m a Democrat.
In the wake of the DCCC's new policy, two key consultants resigned from the would-be campaign of a primary challenger, and now it may not happen at all.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Right-Wing Donor Adam Milstein Has Spent Millions of Dollars to Stifle the BDS Movement and Attack Critics of Israeli Policy
“He is uniquely proud of such aggressive, anti-speech tactics to suppress people of color. This is a war of personal attacks.”
Voices
Watch: a Contentious, Constructive Debate on the Media and Political Humiliation from the Mueller Report
The Mueller report has destroyed the credibility of huge swaths of the political and media elite, and deservedly so.
Voices
Robert Mueller May Not Have Found Evidence of Collusion, but His Report Proves the System Worked
The special counsel's completion of a comprehensive inquiry is an important sign that the slide into a Donald Trump-led autocracy has been halted.
Progressive DA Rachael Rollins Hasn't Stopped Prosecuting Petty Crimes, Despite Pledge. Police Are Still Furious.
The early tenure of Rachael Rollins underscores the tightrope that the new wave of progressive prosecutors are walking.
House Democratic Leadership Warns It Will Cut Off Any Firms That Challenge Incumbents
“The Democratic and Republican parties are commercial enterprises and they’re very much interested in their own survival.”
Means TV, With a Boost from the Nyan Cat, Launches a Post-Capitalist Streaming Service
“Basically, it's a cooperatively-run, anti-capitalist Netflix,” said co-founder Naomi Burton.
Voices
Joe Biden Is Hillary Clinton 2.0 — Democrats Would Be Mad to Nominate Him
Biden backed the Iraq War, is friendly with Wall Street, supported mass incarceration, and has twice run for president unsuccessfully.